 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - Liczba stron: 604
...dishonor we participate, we never laugh thereat I may therefore conclude, that 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Liczba stron: 692
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glorv arising from a sudden conception of some emincncy te-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - Liczba stron: 404
...may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but 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 men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - Liczba stron: 488
...action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden pjlory, 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,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1845 - Liczba stron: 420
...employed by Hobbes, who says : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with out own formerly. For men laugh at the follies of them selves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Liczba stron: 806
...of laughter is nothing els« but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some emiin.ru у in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men taujh at the folies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 282
...hinder us from recurring I * " The passion of laughter is nothing else but 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 men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - Liczba stron: 584
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 386
...round a corner. The breath * "The passion of laughter is nothing else but 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 men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Liczba stron: 712
...may therefore conclude, that the paesion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a o= Iࡎ formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
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The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly... 
