 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...the peripatetic school, let us descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath defined laughter "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly4." This account is, I acThe whole passage runs thus, *H Se xvfjtxtittt e<rrtv, Awwef tiwofjt.iv,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 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. —... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...laughter, concludes thus: 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some hile the step-mother, with all imaginable anxiety,...call them out of an element that appeared to her so follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...therefore conclude, that 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glorv arising from a sudden conception of some emincncy ij < y1C u mCȱk T @v< ] O 7 >g_+_ TI 䆛 , PҔ %ژNMO rk U ل _a\ d d 1pLN follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some...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 - 1845 - 488 pages
...mere muscular action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden pjlory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency...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. —... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1845 - 420 pages
...overlooks the precise terms employed by Hobbes, who says : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of...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 - 806 pages
...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, eicepl they bring with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...us is not so violent as to hinder us from recurring * " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some...others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they corne suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any... | |
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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... 
