 | 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: ' 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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: ' The passion of ' laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising * from some sudden conception...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,...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 - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...forty-seventh paper of the Spectator. " The passion of laughter (says " Mr. Hobbes) is nothing else, but sudden glory " arising from some sudden conception...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 - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...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 - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' 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... | |
 | 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...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 pages
...curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...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... 
