...Yet theories on the subject are not wanting. Hobbes, in his " Essay on Human Nature," asserts that " the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others." Not very flattering this to the goodness of human nature. There must surely be some who can find other...

...ambiguities are the first excellence of an impostor, they are the last of a wit. — Young. DCCCCVL The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy iu ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men...

...this ; but this is in itself vicious ; whereas, the other sort has nothing in its principles or • [" The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse...

...passion of laughter is nothing else but sadden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly :|for(men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when fhey come suddenly to remembrance, except they...

...this ; but this is in itself vicious ; whereas, the other sort has nothing in its principles or * [" The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse...

...to the convulsive action of the diaphragm. Hobbes defines laughter, "a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Campbell says, that in laughter the genuine object is always things grouped together, in which there...

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

...irpoaiairov aiv%pov TI Kai &itorpa^fttvov avcv oSvvrjs- — Poet 5 ter "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."* This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with lhat given in the preceding pages, and, in my judgment,...

...hinder us from recurring • " The p wsion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a 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 rememl ranee, except they...

...defined laugh THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC. 51 ter " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception ol some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."* This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with lhat given in the preceding pages, and, in my judgment,...