 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some cminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of...: 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 - English literature - 1811 - 508 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, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...laughter, we are supported by the authority of that acute thinker, Hobbes, who says that this passion is " A sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of...formerly. For men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except when they bring with them dishonour." And Akenside says... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 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 Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 546 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,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...laughter, concludes thus : • The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some printer. when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour.' According... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 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... | |
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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... 
