 I may therefore conclude, that 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...  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - 第 37 頁George Campbell 著 - 1841 - 396 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1864 - 852 頁
...excite any other strong emotion, ' as pity. Hobbes has given a theory to the effect | that laughter is ' a sudden glory, arising from a ' sudden conception...infirmity of others, or with ' our own formerly.' This evidently suits a certain number of cases, especially the laugh of ridicule, derision, and contempt.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 頁
...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...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... | |
 | 1864 - 890 頁
...actions to selfish motives, and represented laughter as nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 頁
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1865 - 660 頁
...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... | |
 | Lee Siegel - 1987 - 532 頁
...after 6.31). And Hobbes concurs that our laughter is "nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or our own formerly" (Human Nature). When the bus had pulled in to park near the caves of Ellora, the... | |
 | Gary Shapiro - 1989 - 196 頁
...reductionistic formula, The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ... It is vain glory, and an argument of little worth to think the infirmity of another, sufficient... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - 1990 - 312 頁
...laughter this produces. This is closely akin to Hobbes's laughter, that "sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (Human Nature, in English Works, vol. 4, p. 46). 39. In Kroll's "Discourse and Power," he carefully... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 頁
...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...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... | |
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...predominated in Baudelaire's time: "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."'7 The passion has no name but is related to pride; in Leviathan it is a sign of pusillanimity,... | |
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