| Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1840 - 434 pages
...as to admit of no objection. Hobbes, viewing more particularly the act of the mind, defines laughter to be a " sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." And elsewhere he says: " Men laugh at jests, the wit whereof always consisteth in the elegant discovering... | |
| 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,...that appeared to her so dangerous and destructive. when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. ' According... | |
| 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...: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonor." Now this... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glorv arising from a sudden conception of some emincncy te-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds'...when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. It is no... | |
| 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...; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. It is no... | |
| 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... | |
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