 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 стор.
...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothingelse but sudden glory, arising from some sadden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the folliesof themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | George Campbell - 1838 - 460 стор.
...descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath defined laughter "a. sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some « eminency in ourselves,...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly0." This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with that given in the preceding pages, and,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 810 стор.
...that moves laughter, it must be new and unexpected, he defines it 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 men laugh at the follies of themselves past." It might be objected, that those are most prone to... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1840 - 492 стор.
...we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that 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... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 стор.
...viewing more particularly the act of the mind, 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." And elsewhere he says: " Men laugh at jests, the wit whereof always consisteth in the elegant discovering... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 стор.
...descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath defined laughter "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...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 - 1841 - 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. —... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 стор.
...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but ond, immediately ran into it; while the step-mother,...borders of it, to call them out of an element tha for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 стор.
...participate, we never laugh thereat I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 стор.
...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' ear. Where were ye, nymph?, ; 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... 
