 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...who thought that war ' 204 LITERATURE OF WIT AND HUMOUR. 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 pages
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse of Human effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others ; and is... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...Institution, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806." * CEuvres de Stendhal: " Racine et Shakspeare," ch. ii. arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by .comparison with infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity"—which Mr. Smith rejects as not an explanation of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...definition of laughter, as " a sudden glory, ' ' Kuvivs de Stendhal: " Racine et Shakspeare," ch. ii. arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity" — which Mr. Smith rejects as not an explanation... | |
 | Gary Shapiro - Philosophy - 1989 - 196 pages
...reductionistic formula, The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ... It is vain glory, and an argument of little worth to think the infirmity of another, sufficient... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - Drama - 1990 - 312 pages
...laughter this produces. This is closely akin to Hobbes's laughter, that "sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (Human Nature, in English Works, vol. 4, p. 46). 39. In Kroll's "Discourse and Power," he carefully... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 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... | |
 | Art - 368 pages
...predominated in Baudelaire's time: "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."'7 The passion has no name but is related to pride; in Leviathan it is a sign of pusillanimity,... | |
 | Francis A. McGuire, Rosangela Boyd, Ann James (Ph. D.) - Aged - 1992 - 112 pages
...the first proponent of a superiority theory, defined laughter as " a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (McGhee, 1979, p. 5). Anthropologie studies point to the inherently aggressive nature of laughter (Lorenz,... | |
 | Joel Feinberg - Philosophy - 1994 - 384 pages
...laughter in funny experience to be the "sudden glory arising from [the] conception of some cmincncy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly."1 A stranger slips on a banana peel and suffers an undignified pratfall. We observers experience... | |
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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... 
