 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...glory arising from a sudden conception of gome eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity man take heinously to be laughed at or derided ; that is, triiimph(!il over. Laughing without offence,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity day at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant...vision never may be opened what lies behind. When remeiabrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour. It is no wonder, therefore, that man... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity ise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent...becoming despair and madness; and laughter is one of the HOBBES : Treat, on Human Nature. God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh...themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance. The passion opposite hereunto, whose sigus are another distortion of the face with tears, called weeping,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...glory arising from a, sudden conception of some emiuency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, wlini thfy come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present di^houour. It is no... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...much the best in all his works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ter. For there example teacheth, company comforteth,...the force of custom is in its exaltation. Certainly According to this author, therefore, when we hear a man laugh excessively, instead of saying he is... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1882 - 290 pages
...accompaniment of laughter. conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly ; for men laugh...except they bring with them any present dishonour." Hutcheson's own theory is that laughter arises on the observation of contrast. " That then which seems... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1882 - 296 pages
...accompaniment of laughter. conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly ; for men laugh...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any pa-sent dishonour." Hutcheson's own theory is that laughter arises on the observation of contrast.... | |
 | James Martineau - 1885 - 560 pages
...sudden glory from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them present dishonour V ' To fall on the sudden ' (in the race of life) ' is disposition to weep : to see... | |
 | James Martineau - 1886 - 620 pages
...sudden glory from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh...when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they ' Human Nature, chap. viii. § 3; Molesworth, Vol. IV. p. 57. - Ibid. chap. viii. § 7. - Leviathan,... | |
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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: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they... 
