| British essayists - 1819 - Liczba stron: 370
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| 1822 - Liczba stron: 788
...works, after some very curious observation* upon laughter, concludes thus : • The passion of laughter ved formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - Liczba stron: 546
...disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly," — for we laugh as readily at some brilliant conception of wit, where there are no infirmities... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - Liczba stron: 884
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The. passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Liczba stron: 356
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Liczba stron: 632
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| 1824 - Liczba stron: 310
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: — ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1826 - Liczba stron: 522
...disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly," — for we laugh as readily at some brilliant conception of wit, where there are no infirmities... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - Liczba stron: 512
...action* is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." To this notion of the origin of this class of our feelings, there are some objections ;... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1828 - Liczba stron: 432
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
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