 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 páginas
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | 1822 - 788 páginas
...works, after some very curious observation* upon laughter, concludes thus : • The passion of laughter ved formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 páginas
...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...comparison with 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 páginas
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The. passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 páginas
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 páginas
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | 1824 - 310 páginas
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: — ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 páginas
...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...comparison with 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - 512 páginas
...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...comparison with 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 ;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 páginas
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
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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... 
