 | George Campbell - 1808 - 468 pages
...the peripatetic school, let us descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath denned laughter " a sudden glory, arising " from a sudden conception...some eminency in *' ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of " others, or with our own formerly *." This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible... | |
 | 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 some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. For men laugh at the follies of themselves past,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...essential to the production of the emotion, would be to our disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising...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... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...essential to the production of the emotion, would be to our disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising...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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - 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 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 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 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... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 pages
...indeed, so clear as to admit of no objection. Hobbes, viewing more particularly the act of the mind, defines laughter to be a " sudden glory, arising from...of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." And elsewhere he says, " men laugh at jests, the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 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 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... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 718 pages
...justly observing that whatsoever it be 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 comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, for men laugh at the * Lev. c.6. f Hum. Nat. c.... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 pages
...indeed, so clear as to admit of no objection. Hobbes, viewing more particularly the act of the mind, defines laughter to be a " sudden glory, arising from...of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." And elsewhere he says: " Men laugh at jests, the... | |
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I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly... 
