Scholars have occasionally interpreted Lord Coke's ruling in Dr. Bonham's Case as implying the possibility of judicial review, but by the 1870s, Lord Campbell was dismissing judicial review as " a foolish doctrine alleged to have been laid down extra-judicially in Dr. Bonham's Case ..., a conundrum ought to have been laughed at.

On January 1, A. D. 400, Asterius, bishop of Amasea in Pontus ( Amasya, Turkey ) preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends (" this foolish and harmful delight ") that describes the role of the Lord of Misrule in Late Antiquity.

All the while Bhishma stood with folded palms and tears in his eyes, awed by the beauty of the wrath of the Lord and the intense love that God bears for his friends, so great that He is willing to endure the censorship of ignorant foolish men.

In his will he left £ 20, 000 to help pay off the national debt, something Lord Mansfield described as " a very foolish bequest .. he might as well have attempted to stop the middle arch of Blackfriars Bridge with his wig full-bottomed wig ".

The art critic Geoffrey Grigson echoed the comments of Lord Curzon, when he complained in 1980 that the memorial was a " squat toad of foolish stone ".

The decision in Bonham's Case has been described by John Campbell ( Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor in the 19th century ) as " a foolish doctrine alleged to have been laid down extra-judicially ".

Always prudent, discreet, and just, his conduct of the embassy stood in distinct contrast to that of his predecessor, Lord Augustus Loftus, ‘ foolish … pompous and inclined to swagger ’ ( Derby, diary, 10 Nov 1884, Stanley MSS, Lpool RO ).

WG Grace and Lord Harris both told Ulyett that he was foolish to have attempted to take the catch: had it hit his wrist or arm instead, that bone would surely have snapped.

The two couples and their young counterparts argue furiously about how foolish they were when they were young.

Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone " excessively anxious for empty distinction ", whose " desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons ".

: Then arose the famous murderer, Robert Hood, as well as Little John, together with their accomplices from among the disinherited, whom the foolish populace are so inordinately fond of celebrating both in tragedies and comedies, and about whom they are delighted to hear the jesters and minstrels sing above all other ballads.

Pshaw, He would not send such a foolish ugly old woman as you about with His message.

During this interview, Rooney repeatedly corrects Ali G's poor grammar, and responds angrily to Ali G's foolish questions about the current state of the media.

Clarendon, always having warned about " this foolish war ", was ordered to quickly make peace with the Dutch without French mediation.

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) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement, the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846, keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States, and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which the administration was able to sell to congress because the United States was about to begin the Mexican-American war, and the president and others argued it would be foolish to also fight the British Empire.

Petronius rebelled against this trend: “ Nihil est hominum inepta persuasione falsius nec ficta severitate ineptius ” (“ There is nothing about man more false than his foolish convictions and there is nothing more stupid than hypocrite severity ” — section 132 ).

* " It seems clear that the Allies are outclassed on mechanical equipment, and it is foolish to talk about modernizing their Armies in times like these, they ought to have thought of that five years ago.

" Sardonically, a murderer says Gloucester weeps millstones – echoing Richard's earlier comment about the murderers ' own eyes weeping millstones rather than " foolish tears " ( Act I, Sc.

At the end of the story to the court, he is asked about an expensive dagger owned by the samurai's wife: he says that, in the confusion, he forgot all about it, and that it was foolish of him to leave behind such a valuable object.

Sue Ellen appears in four episodes: in " The Caddy ", she struts down the street wearing a bra as a top, causing Kramer to crash George's car ; in " The Bottle Deposit ", Elaine spends $ 20, 000 on a set of golf clubs ( owned by John F. Kennedy ) for Mr. Peterman when she is caught in a vicious bidding war with Sue Ellen at an auction ; in " The Abstinence ", Elaine boasts to Sue Ellen about dating a doctor but then is made to look foolish when her boyfriend is completely useless during an emergency at the coffee shop ; finally, in " The Betrayal ", Elaine is so unhappy at receiving an " Unvitation " ( a super-last-minute invitation ) to Sue Ellen's wedding, that she travels all the way to India just to show up.

He left about 200, 000 sesterces to his son Clodius, who proved a foolish spendthrift.

The " Allen's Alley " stereotypes make some cringe, as Allen biographer Robert Taylor noted ( in Fred Allen: His Life and Wit ), but others find them lancing more than lauding stereotypes, letting listeners make up their own minds about how foolish they could be.

Doofus is an alternative comic by Rick Altergott about two foolish creeps, Doofus and his pal Henry Hotchkiss, and their adventures in Flowertown USA.

A modern-day fop may also be a reference to a foolish person who is overly concerned about his clothing and incapable of engaging in intellectual conversations, activities or thoughts.

The main differences being that it is now just a social festivity in which the Mummers get dressed up and visit the elderly, dancing about the house and acting foolish.

I denied them what they wanted and they were pissed off about itquite rightly, I knew I wasn't giving them what they wanted and it was a really foolish choice.

Surprisingly, Sancho is able to rule justly, applying common sense and practical wisdom in spite of fantastical, foolish advice that Don Quixote has read about.

* Kuttanimata, by the eighth-century Kashmiri poet Damodaragupta ( Dāmodaragupta's Kuṭṭanīmata, though often included in lists of this sort, is really a novel written in Sanskrit verse, in which an aged bawd named Vikarālā gives advice to a young, beautiful, but as yet unsuccessful courtesan of Benares ; most of the advice comes in the form of two long moral tales, one about a heartless and therefore successful courtesan, Mañjarī, and the other about a tender-hearted and therefore foolish girl, Hāralatā, who makes the mistake of falling in love with a client and eventually dies of a broken heart.

At TRL, she talks with P. Diddy, who asks her for an autograph, and causes herself much embarrassment when she, upon meeting the rapper Jay-Z, tells him that she loves his song ; when Jay-Z asks which song, she begins rapping a line from his song " 99 Problems ", which makes her feel foolish, and she laughs at herself about it.

His wife prompts him to " curse God, and die " but Job answers, " You speak as one of the foolish speaks.

Another alternative title for the Demiurge, “ Saklas ,” is Aramaic for “ fool ” ( Syriac sækla “ the foolish one ”).

It is also referred to as " pride that blinds ", as it often causes one accused of hubris to act in foolish ways that belie common sense.

Go into one of their schools, say that you are the enemy of images, and straightway they will throw their little tablets at your head, and what you have failed to learn from the wise you may pick up from the foolish ...

The story goes that other tribes soon forgot the nature of one of these thunderbird families, and when one tribe tried to take them as slaves the thunderbirds put on their feather blankets and transformed to take vengeance upon their foolish captors.

But our thoughts can contain only one idea at a time, so if the plot is " hero runs after murderer " and our reflection is " he was foolish to trust the villain ", our thought is something like " hero foolish trust run after murderer villain ".

* By quietude alone one does not become a sage ( muni ) if he is foolish and ignorant.

After James allegedly captured and killed one of Pinkerton's young undercover agents, who was foolish enough to gain employment at the farm neighboring the James farmstead, he finally gave up the chase.

Some would consider the study of " nothing " to be foolish, a typical response of this type is voiced by Giacomo Casanova ( 1725 – 1798 ) in conversation with his landlord, one Dr. Gozzi, who also happens to be a priest,

Christian theologists present Bona Dea-or rather, Fauna, whom they clearly take her to be-as one of the innumerable Roman gods who supposedly show the immorality and absurdity at the heart of traditional Roman religion ; according to them, no prophetess, merely " foolish Fenta ", daughter and wife to her incestuous father, and " good " ( bona ) only at drinking too much wine.

* Titus 3: 3: " For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Amram Gaon in his edition of the Siddur calls the custom of reciting the Kol Nidre a foolish one (" minhag shetut ").

In fact, if a sedimentary province is absolutely barren of traces of petroleum, one is probably foolish to continue drilling there.

It is believed that he several times thought of marrying her, and that on one occasion the pair were on their way to the church, when Gillray said: " This is a foolish affair, methinks, Miss Humphrey.

*" The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

Having been stripped of his monastic name, he renamed himself Gutoku or " foolish, bald-headed one ," coming to understand himself as neither monk nor layman.

He is the first one to notice signs of Sydney's betrayal, but dismisses his thoughts as foolish.

Barker denied the tale later in life, stating he had no interest in the position and no one who knew Howe would be foolish enough to gamble with him, as Howe had shown himself to be uncommonly lucky.

Chaos envelops the deck of the cruise ship, and one foolish passenger yells " abandon ship!

Ender has a battle of wills throughout the voyage with Admiral Morgan, who attempts to usurp Ender's lawful position as Governor of Shakespeare, believing Ender to be a foolish child no one would follow.

For example, Larry McVoy ( author of the proprietary software BitKeeper, once used to manage Linux kernel development, until the gratis license was revoked in a reverse-engineering controversy ) opined that " claiming credit only makes one look foolish and greedy ".

At one point he ruled against translating his teachings into Vedic, saying that to do so would be foolish — as the language of the Vedas, Vedic was by that time an archaic and obsolete language.

It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds " ( often misquoted by omission of the word " foolish ").