 | Wallace L. Chafe - 2007 - 190 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...be laughed at or derided, that is, triumphed over. Laughter without offence, must be at absurdities and infirmities abstracted from persons, and when... | |
 | Rod A. Martin - 2010 - 464 pages
...some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ... It is no wonder therefore that men take heinously...be laughed at or derided, that is, triumphed over." (in Human Nature, reprinted in Morreall, 1987, p. 20). Thus, humor is thought to result from a sense... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 pages
...conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,' and he adds, 'it is no wonder therefore that men take heinously to be laughed at or derided, that is, triumphed over.'19 Though it may seem inappropriate to modern readers, the laughter of Milton's God within its... | |
 | 1862 - 820 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...except they bring with them any present dishonour.' Now this certainly is not true in theory. All laughter is not contempt ; it is the sudden shock of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 926 pages
...ourselves as compared with the infirmities of otheis, or with our own formerly. "For men," he continues, "laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except when bringing with them any sudden dishonor." And disagreeable as may be the idea that mirth, the quality... | |
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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... 
