...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 df others, or our own former infirmity." There can be little doubt, I think, that the object which...

...or friends of whose dishonour we participate, we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...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...

...to the views of Hobbes, who attributed men's actions to selfish motives, and represented laughter as nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden...ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or our own formerly. He characterizes Hobbes as " having fallen into a way of speaking, which was much...

...the best of all his works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : — " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in our selves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at...

...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 ]...infirmity of others, or with ' our own formerly.' This evidently suits a certain number of cases, especially the laugh of ridicule, derision, and contempt....

...is well-known, and has been greatly attacked. 'Laughter,' he says, 'is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' In other words, it is an expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there are many...

...friends, of whose dishonour we participate, we never laugh thereat. 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...

...intellectuality about it, and the laughter which it produces reminds one of Hobbes's dictum that " the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmities of others." An Irishman rather than not be funny will be funny at his own expense. A Scot's...

...is in this department of the Comic that there seems most foundation for the theory of Hobbes, ' that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...the infirmity of others ; or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past where they come suddenly to remembrance, except they...

...is in this department of the Comic that there seems most foundation for the theory of Hobbes, ' that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emiuency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others ; or with our own formerly ; for men...