...to the views of Hobbes, who attributed men's actions to selfish motives, and represented laughter as nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden...ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or our own formerly. He characterizes Hobbes as " having fallen into a way of speaking, which was much...

...pity. Hobbes has given a theory to the effect | that laughter is ' a sudden glory, arising from a ' sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves ]...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with ' our own formerly.' This evidently suits a certain number of cases, especially the laugh of ridicule, derision,...

...after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : — " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in our selves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at...

...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,...

...is well-known, and has been greatly attacked. 'Laughter,' he says, 'is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' In other words, it is an expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there...

...it, and the laughter which it produces reminds one of Hobbes's dictum that " the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmities of others." An Irishman rather than not be funny will be funny at his own expense. A Scot's...

...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is " nothing (else) but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception " of some eminency in ourselves,...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,...

...the Comic that there seems most foundation for the theory of Hobbes, ' that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emiuency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others ; or with our own formerly ; for men...

...according to whom, the source of laughter is " a sudden glory arising from conception of some emineucy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly " ('Human Nature/ ch. ix., s. 13). With Hobbes's opinion, that of Helvetius coincides, who...

...nothing else but sudden glory arismf from some sudden conception of 0 « • i i_ • some emmeney in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others ; or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past where they coiné suddenly to remembrance,...