 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 604 pages
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some eininency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discount of Human Nature ] effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others ;... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1854 - 620 pages
...unexpected, he defines it to be " a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eruinency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, for men laugh at the fellies of themselves past." It might be objected, that those are most prone to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 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 - 1856 - 628 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... | |
 | East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...Hobbes, in his " Essay on Human Nature," asserts that " the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others." Not very flattering this to the goodness of human nature. There must surely be some who can find other... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 604 pages
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse of Human 1" "ire.] effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sadden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly :|for(men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when fhey come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy iu 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 pages
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse of Human effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others ; and is... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 pages
...to the convulsive action of the diaphragm. Hobbes defines laughter, "a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Campbell says, that in laughter the genuine object is always things grouped together, in which there... | |
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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... 
