With Herberet's blessing, he was convinced that Allstates' Wisconsin folly would be ideal for conversion to airplane sub-assembly, tanks, missiles or ordnance of some kind.

One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

He told Harley that he was " privy to all their folly " but " Perfectly unsuspected as with corresponding with anybody in England ".

' So great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed.

It was a policy that attracted criticism ; however, Adenauer started his administration from absolute zero, and " it would have been folly to deprive the fledgling republic of the services of civil servants and professionals for that reason alone.

Adam Smith noted at the core of the mercantile system was the " popular folly of confusing wealth with money ," bullion was just the same as any other commodity, and there was no reason to give it special treatment.

At any rate, after Claudius's death he vented on him every kind of insult, in act and word, charging him now with folly and now with cruelty ; for it was a favourite joke of his to say that Claudius had ceased " to play the fool among mortals, lengthening the first syllable of the word morari, and he disregarded many of his decrees and acts as the work of a madman and a dotard.

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

" He regarded slavery as " a crime whose shortsighted folly was worse than its guilt " because it " brought hordes of African slaves, whose descendants now form immense populations in certain portions of the land.

At its heart is Glenveagh Castle, a beautiful late Victorian ' folly ' that was originally built as a summer residence.

" A year later in the Senate ( January 10, 1838 ), Calhoun repeated this defense of slavery as a " positive good ": " Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil ; that folly and delusion are gone ; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.

The British historian Max Hastings has labelled the operation both costly and unnecessary, writing that " Operation Varsity was a folly for which more than a thousand men paid for with their lives ..."

In Carr's opinion, Churchill's support of the White Russian movement was folly as Russia was likely to be a great power once more under the leadership of the Bolsheviks.

In London it was said " His Lordship may spend time as well as he can and have leisure to repent his juvenile folly.

His folly could be regarded as the raving of a madman but was often deemed to be divinely inspired.

At the time, it was heavily derided by competitors as being " un-American " and the fund itself was seen as " Bogle's folly ".

The stadium cost £ 750, 000, and was constructed on the site of an earlier folly called Watkin's Tower.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

* Narrenweisheit oder Tod und Verklärung des Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( Tis folly to be wise, or, Death and transfiguration of Jean-Jaques Rousseau ), 1952, a novel set before and during the Great French Revolution

" To show the folly of our method, examine the south of the Great Lakes, and you will find in every 30 miles from Plymouth to Omaha the scene of an Indian massacre.

In the meantime, generations keep being born, bitterness is increased by incompetence, pride, and folly, and the world shrinks around us.

King Charles the Old, being conqueror, falls in love with a young maiden, and afterward growing ashamed of his folly bestows her and her sister honourably in marriage.

Edward recalled his friend, but could do little to prevent Gaveston being captured in 1312 under the orders of the Earl of Lancaster and his allies, who claimed that he had led the king to folly.

In Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wooton turns praise of folly into a philosophy which mocks " slow Silenus " for being sober.

The folly and absurdity of the Queen in allowing this trumpery must strike every sensible and well-thinking mind, and I am astonished the ministers themselves do not insist on her at least going to Osborne during the Exhibition, as no human being can possibly answer for what may occur on the occasion.

In the third book, the general concepts proposed thus far are applied to demonstrate that the vital and intellectual principles, the Anima and Animus, are as much a part of us as are our limbs and members, but like those limbs and members have no distinct and independent existence, and that hence soul and body live and perish together ; the argument being wound up by a magnificent exposure of the folly manifested in a dread of death, which will for ever extinguish all feeling.

Pagodas traditionally have an odd number of levels, a notable exception being the eighteenth century pagoda " folly " designed by Sir William Chambers at Kew Gardens in London.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners ; it is the manner in which the mob express their silly joy at silly things ; and they call it being merry.

According to its wisdom — which makes it seek the upper world, the pure lasting form — or its folly — which makes it follow the impure matter of the perishable world below — the soul of man partakes of the nature of either the one or the other but, his destination being to live forever like the angels, man has been appointed by God to be the ruler of all beings on earth ; and in the same measure in which he fulfills or deviates from his destination, does he rise or fall in dignity above or below his fellow creatures.

' Falling in love transforms their whole world, it is a sublime experience, an act of folly ... the discovery of one's own being and one's own destiny '.

Likewise, civic as well as municipal and governmental colleges along with town halls counted this style among its top-ranked and most-prized structures to this day ; ironically, in Britain itself, for example, King George IV's Royal Pavilion at Brighton, ( which twice in its lifetime has been threatened with being torn-down, denigrated by some as a “ carnival sideshow ”, and dismissed by others as “ an architectural folly of inferior design ”, no less ) and elsewhere, these rare and often diminutive ( though sometimes, as mentioned, of grand-scale ), residential structures that exhibit this colonial style are highly valuable and prized by the communities in which they exist as being somehow “ magical ” in appearance.

However, the folly, being open to the elements, began to fall into a state of disrepair during the late 1930s.

His chief work is The Golden Grove ( 1600 ), a general guide to morals, politics and literature, in which the manners of the time are severely criticized, plays being denounced as folly and wickedness.

* Brizlee Tower, a Grade 1 listed folly tower set atop a hill in Hulne Park, the Duke's walled estate, designed by Robert Adam in 1777 and erected in 1781 for Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

An 18th century folly in the park is a Grade II listed building.

The Folly ( http :// www. ncbpt. org. uk / folly /) is a 17th century Grade I listed building on the main street.

In 1761, Princess Amelia became the owner of Gunnersbury Estate, Middlesex, and at some time between 1777 and 1784, commissioned a bath house, extended as a folly by a subsequent owner of the land in the 19th century, which still stands today with a Grade II English Heritage listing and is known as Princess Amelia's Bathhouse.

The folly is also listed at Grade II.

* 1 Corinthians 2: 14: " The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Atop Grinlow Hill, 1, 441 feet ( 439 m ) above sea level, is Grinlow Tower ( locally also called " Solomon's Temple "), a two-storey granite, crooked, crenelated folly built in 1834 by Solomon Mycock to provide work for the town's unemployed and later restored in 1996 after a lengthy closure to the public.

“ All Fools Day ” ( now known as April Fools Day which falls on 1 April ) was Swift ’ s favorite of holidays and he often used this day to aim his satirically biting wit at non-believers in an attempt to “ make sin and folly bleed .” Disgruntled by Partridge ’ s sarcastic attack about the “ infallible Church ” written in his 1708 issue of Merlinus Almanac, Swift projected carefully 3 letters and one Eulogy as an elaborate plan to “ predict ” Partridge ’ s “ infallible death ” to be revealed on April 1, All Fools Day.

Paul previously stated in 1 Corinthians 2: 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned, offering an explanation which coincides with the gnostic teaching of levels of comprehension.

Angels occur only in Job and Tobit, and therein noteworthy characters: in Job they are beings whom God charges with folly ( 4: 18 ), or they are mediators between God and man ( 5: 1, 33: 23 ), and are consequently more humanized.