 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 928 oldal
...as always and intrinsically a response to a ludicrous situation. Thus Hobbes says that laughter is "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly." This may satisfactorily answer Spencer's question... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 316 oldal
...take that interest Is our laughter, if we have any, over the misfortunes of Malvolio "nothing else but a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison of the infirmity of others " ? That was what a learned man, the Philosopher of Malmesbury, living not... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 oldal
...provoking the laughter of contempt by the degradation of some person or object. Hobbes defines laughter as a " sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly ", and Ridicule tries to excite this feeling as a... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 926 oldal
...as always and intrinsically a response to a ludicrous situation. Thus Hobbcs says that laughter is "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly." This may satisfactorily answer Spencer's question... | |
 | Anuruddha - 1910 - 352 oldal
...existence. Hobbes in this view, then, the Buddhists forestalled Hobbes, according to whom 'laughter is a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly.' This implies some gratification of the sentiment... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - 1911 - 414 oldal
...from the ancient. He lays stress upon Hobbes' claim that "the passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison of the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." The high comic poet must taste of life healthily,... | |
 | 1921 - 606 oldal
...Hobbes's doctrine has nevertheless acquired just fame. "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the inferiority of others or with our own formerly. ' ' Laughter, then, arises not immediately from... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 oldal
...themselves onely with the most able." and, also from Hobbes: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a 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,... | |
 | 1907 - 562 oldal
...conception of superiority and degradation. He says, ' 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the inferiority of others, or with our own fo1merly." He then makes the chief element in the emotion... | |
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I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly... 
