...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising- from some sudden conception...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour.' According to this author therefore, when we hear a man laugh excessively, instead...

...some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The. passion of kughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour.' According to this author therefore, when we hear a man laugh excessively, instead...

...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour.' According to this author therefore, when we hear a man laugh excessively, instead...

...disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " 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,'—for we laugh as readily at some brilliant conVOL. II.—Yy ception of wit, where there...

...some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour." According to this author, therefore, when we hear a man laugh excessively, instead...

...action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." To this notion of the origin of this class of our feelings, there are some objections ; viz. (1) In...

...an imposter, they are the last of a wit.— Young. DCCCCVI. The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour.—Hobbes. DCCCCV1I. There are four good mothers, of whom are often born four unhappy...

...an imposter, they are the last of a wit.— Young. DCCCCVI. The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonour.—Hobbea. DCCCCV1I. There are four good mothers, of whom are often born four unhappy...

...of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminmey in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. Habla. Where men cannot arrive to any emincncy of estate, yet religion makes a compensation, by teaching...

...participate, we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when...