He produced an interlude at Linlithgow Palace thought to be a version of his play The Thrie Estaitis in 1540, the first surviving full Scottish play, which satirised the corruption of church and state.

Patience ( 1881 ) satirised the aesthetic movement in general and its colourful poets, in particular, combining aspects of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor.

On Saturday, October 20, 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Francis Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice Wilkins was ' satirised ' in a short sketch with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools '; in this sketch Watson was called " Little J. D.

The Apes of God ( 1930 ) has been interpreted similarly, because many of the characters satirised are Jewish, including the modernist author and editor Julius Ratner, a portrait which blends anti-semitic stereotype with historical literary figures ( John Rodker and James Joyce ; though the Joyce element consists solely in the use of the word " epiphany " in the parody of Rodker included in the novel ).

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

In it he ruthlessly satirised both the High church Tories and those Dissenters who hypocritically practised so-called " occasional conformity ", such as his Stoke Newington neighbour Sir Thomas Abney.

A mock-historical account of British education viewed from the year 2033, it satirised the beliefs of those who supported the Tripartite System.

" The opera won a " cult following " among young aesthetes, and the writer Jean Lorrain satirised the " Pelléastres " who aped the costumes and hairstyles of Mary Garden and the rest of the cast.

The affair was satirised on many occasions, not least by the pictorial satirist and social critic William Hogarth, who was notably critical of the medical profession's gullibility.

It was suggested by William Warburton that Florio is satirised by William Shakespeare in the character of Holofernes, the pompous pedant of Love's Labors Lost, but it as likely, especially as he was one of the Earl of Southampton's protégés, that he was among the personal friends of the dramatist, who may have gained knowledge of French and Italian literature from him.

He became friends around this time with a fellow physician, François Rabelais, who later wrote La vie de Gargantua et Pantagruel in which Rondelet is satirised under the thinly disguised alias of " Rondibilis ".

Shakespeare is sometimes thought to have satirised Lucy with the character of Justice Shallow, who appears in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The programme sometimes satirised current events but the mainstay was simple observational comedy and frequently employed base humour ( for example, the tracking camera shot in the title sequence showed a drunk who had urinated in his trousers ).

One notable example of its sometimes controversial editorial approach was a musical comedy sketch that satirised the actions of then-NSW Premier Robert Askin, who was reported to have ordered his driver to “ run over the bastards ” when anti-war demonstrators threw themselves in the front the car in which he and visiting U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson were travelling.

He is perhaps best known on Usenet for his famous ( or infamous ) " Happynet Proclamation " ( 1992 ), circulated to many newsgroups, some absurdly unrelated, which satirised the endless flamewars on the network, with Parry posing as a godlike being issuing an edict full of in-jokes and humor targets that claimed to unify all news into one glorious totality, " happynet ".

The charges centred on two items in the early issues of Oz -- one was Sharp's ribald poem " The Word Flashed Around The Arms ", which satirised the contemporary habit of youths gatecrashing parties ; the other offending item was the famous photo ( used on the cover of Oz # 6 ) which depicted Neville and two friends pretending to urinate into a Tom Bass sculptural wall fountain, set into the wall of the new P & O office in Sydney, which had recently been opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

When Wentworth proposed creating a hereditary peerage in New South Wales, Deniehy savagely satirised it: " Here ," he said, " we all know the common water mole was transferred into the duck-billed platypus, and in some distant emulation of this degeneration, I suppose we are to be favoured with a " bunyip aristocracy.

Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programs and reporting.

He criticised and satirised, from the inside, the various social milieus in which he found himself – provincial town life in A Clergyman's Daughter ; middle-class pretention in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; preparatory schools in Such Such were the Joys ; colonialism in Burmese Days, and some socialist groups in The Road to Wigan Pier.

He and his life-long companion Stella were both in the habit of visiting, and Swift satirised the grounds which he considered too small for the size of the house.

Other sketches included " Superthunderstingcar ", a parody of the Gerry Anderson marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on Greta Garbo.

By 1924 the subject could be satirised in popular children's books.

In two years of acrimonious public dispute that Charles Kingsley satirised as the " Great Hippocampus Question " and parodied in The Water-Babies as the " great hippopotamus test ", Huxley showed that Owen was incorrect in asserting that ape brains lacked a structure present in human brains.

The cultus of More has been satirised.

He is by turns dismissed, satirised, or ignored, but he, and his tortured son, are never definitively discarded.

Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run, Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised ; they hailed him as the equal of Dickens.

Patience satirised the self-indulgent aesthetic movement of the 1870s and ' 80s in England.

Walpole was also satirised and parodied extensively ; he was often compared to the criminal Jonathan Wild as, for example, John Gay did in his farcical Beggar's Opera.

In 1861 the hippocampus minor became the centre of a dispute over human evolution between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen, satirised as the Great Hippocampus Question.

* Mark Twain satirised the host of claimants in the characters of the Duke and the Dauphin, the con men in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

He satirised the lengths to which the Austro-Hungarian police would go to entrap suspected political subversives in the opening chapters of The Good Soldier Švejk.

Offenbach became associated with the Second French Empire of Napoleon III ; the emperor and his court were genially satirised in many of Offenbach's operettas.

Barker starred alongside Cleese and Corbett in The Frost Report < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s best known sketch, which satirised the British class system, with Barker representing the middle class.

During his premiership in the early 1960s Macmillan was savagely satirised for his alleged decrepitude by the comedian Peter Cook in the stage review Beyond the Fringe.

His alleged poverty for a king is satirised.

An enduring example is the Major-General's Song from the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, The Pirates of Penzance, where a senior army officer is satirised for his enormous fund of irrelevant knowledge.

In recent years Catford has been satirised in The Chap magazine series called ' A year in Catford ' after Peter Mayle's bestseller A Year in Provence.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.

Scottish philosopher W. R. Sorley presented the following argument:

Bundle theory, originated by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection ( bundle ) of properties, relations or tropes.

David Hume ( 25 August 1776 ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

The term was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier ( 1808 – 1864 ).

Earlier, the Scottish philosopher David Hume had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values.

The Scottish philosopher David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

Hugh Binning ( 1627 – 1653 ) was a Scottish philosopher.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 169627 December 1782 ) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.

Following the French committee's findings, in his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind ( 1818 ), Dugald Stewart, an influential academic philosopher of the " Scottish School of Common Sense ", encouraged physicians to salvage elements of Mesmerism by replacing the supernatural theory of " animal magnetism " with a new interpretation based upon " common sense " laws of physiology and psychology.

* 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist ( d. 1790 )

Hutton was one of the most influential participants in the Scottish Enlightenment, and fell in with numerous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith.

John Abercrombie FRSE FRCSE FRCPE ( 12 October 1780, Aberdeen – 14 November 1844, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.

* 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1776 )

Written in 1776 by Adam Smith, a Scottish moral philosopher, The Wealth of Nations aims for efficient organization of work through Specialization of labor.

* 1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher

" The Scottish moral philosopher Francis Hutcheson, as a student at Glasgow, " was attracted most by Cicero, for whom he always professed the greatest admiration.

* Adam Smith ( 1723 – 1790 ) Scottish economist and philosopher.

* David Hume, Scottish philosopher

* Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher

* September 18 – Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher ( b. 1818 )

* December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher ( b. 1697 )

* October 7 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher ( b. 1710 )