 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that 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 llicj... | |
 | Joseph Haven - Psychology - 1869 - 614 pages
...mind, is merely the expression of the feeling of the ludicrous, to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity." There can be little doubt, I think, that the object which excites laughter,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...laughter, concludes thus : * The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising froEi some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves...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... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 850 pages
...emotion, as pity. Hobbes has given a theory to the effect that laughter is 'a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' This evidently suits a certain number of cases, especially the laugh of ridicule, derision, and contempt.... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - Drama - 1990 - 312 pages
...overcome danger, exactly the laughter this produces. This is closely akin to Hobbes's laughter, that "sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (Human Nature, in English Works, vol. 4, p. 46). 39. In Kroll's "Discourse and Power," he carefully... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 pages
...we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that 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... | |
 | Art - 368 pages
...Hobbes, whose definition predominated in Baudelaire's time: "the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."'7 The passion has no name but is related to pride; in Leviathan it is a sign of pusillanimity,... | |
 | Francis A. McGuire, Rosangela Boyd, Ann James (Ph. D.) - Aged - 1992 - 112 pages
...the first proponent of a superiority theory, defined laughter as " a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (McGhee, 1979, p. 5). Anthropologie studies point to the inherently aggressive nature of laughter (Lorenz,... | |
 | Joel Feinberg - Philosophy - 1994 - 384 pages
...laughter in funny experience to be the "sudden glory arising from [the] conception of some cmincncy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly."1 A stranger slips on a banana peel and suffers an undignified pratfall. We observers experience... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1993 - 724 pages
...prominently, a form of boasting. Hobbes had long ago defined the "passion of laughter" as "nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Nineteenth-century students of humor made this definition their own and offered imaginative variations... | |
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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... 
