 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 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...others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 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...others, or with our own formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Intellect - 1826 - 522 pages
...the emotion, would be to our disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...infirmity of others, or with our own formerly," — for we laugh as readily at some brilliant conception of wit, where there are no infirmities of others displayed,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1827 - 512 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. (1) In... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 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...others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...wit. — Young. DCCCCVL The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...wit.— Young. DCCCCVI. The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...Stood like a tower. 1:1. The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. Hobbet. Where men cannot arrive to any eminency of estate, yet religion makes a compensation, by teaching... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Laughter - 1830 - 88 pages
...arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1831 - 544 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. (1) In... | |
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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... 
