 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...if Addiion had not spoken of it with approbation in the 47th Spectator. ' The passion of Uughter,' says Mr. Hobbes, ' is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eininency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, ir with our own formerly. For men... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...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 with the infirmity of others, or with our " own, formerly *." This account is, J acknowledge, incompatible with that given in the preceding pages, and,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: ' The passion of ' laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising * from some...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 - English language - 1808 - 468 pages
...descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath denned laughter " a sudden glory, arising " from a sudden conception of some eminency in *' ourselves,...comparison with the infirmity of " others, or with our own formerly *." This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with that given in the preceding pages, and,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...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, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...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 oth'ers, 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... 
