 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 стор.
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | 1822 - 788 стор.
...curious observation* upon laughter, concludes thus : • The passion of laughter is nothing else but man and Hazzard. William Brown, printer. ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 стор.
...disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 стор.
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 стор.
...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The. passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 стор.
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | 1824 - 310 стор.
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: — ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 стор.
...disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - 512 стор.
...action* is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...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 стор.
...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
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I may therefore conclude, that 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... 
