 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 sider
...Hobbes'i accour.t cfl;u:ghter exaniuicj. ~ 'i defined Uughtff " a sodden glory, arising from-a sud" den conception of some eminency in ourselves,, by " comparison...the infirmity of others, or with our " own, formerly *." This account is, J acknowledge, incompatible with that given in the preceding pages, and, in ray... | |
 | 1803 - 434 sider
...laughter, concludes thus: ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some 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, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | 1803 - 420 sider
...laughter, concludes thus: ' 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 o* thers, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at ' the follies of themselves past, when they come... | |
 | George Campbell - 1808 - 468 sider
...the peripatetic school, let us descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath denned laughter " a sudden glory, arising " from a sudden conception...the infirmity of " others, or with our own formerly *." This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with that given in the preceding pages, and, in my... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 sider
..." The passion of laughter (says " Mr. Hobbes) is nothing else, but sudden glory " arising from some sudden conception of some " eminency in ourselves...comparison with " the infirmity of others, or with our own for" merly. For men (continues he) laugh at the " follies of themselves past, when they come * Tacitus,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 sider
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some cminency in ourselves, by 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, except they... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 sider
...laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some 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, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 sider
...laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some 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, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 sider
...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...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 when... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 sider
...laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of oth'ers, 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... 
