 | Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 pages
...of wit, and full of the most ingenious and exalted pleasantry.' (p. 120.) ' Hobbes defines laughter to be a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity. . . ; . Taking the language of Hobbes to mean the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 408 pages
...successful exertion in a virtuous cause. LECTURE XL ON WIT AND HUMOR.— PART II. HOBBES defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity." By infirmity he must mean, I presume, marked and... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...wrong-headed English philosopher, Hobbes, who thought that war was man's natural state, defined laughter to be " a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception...of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with infirmity of others or our own infirmity." The definitions given by Locke and by the Scotch rhetoricians,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...laughter, concludes thus : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. According... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. According... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1856 - 500 pages
...independently of the mere muscular action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of...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, viz. —... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy iu ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others,...: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. — Hobbes.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 pages
...made a noble and successful exertion in a virtuous cause. NATURE OF HUMOUR.* HOBBES defines laughter to be "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity." By infirmity he must mean, I presume, marked and... | |
 | East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...Nature," asserts that " 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." Not very flattering this to the goodness of human nature. There must surely be some who can find other... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sadden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly :|for(men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when fhey come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
| |
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... 
