Folly

This is what we call Folly and Impertinence; but what the French look upon as Gay and Polite.

Spectator, April 3, 1711 1711

This is what we call Folly and Impertinence; but what the _French_ look upon as Gay and Polite.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

"Folly" is used in the sense of fun or light-heartedness, not in the sense of something ill-advised.

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"Folly" is read by English Version with some manuscripts, instead of the present Hebrew text, "prudence."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Folly is the want of moral consideration [Umbreit].

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Folly is set in great dignity, as Solomon observed, Eccl. x.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Man deserves a harder Name than Language can furnish us with, and is many degrees beyond what we commonly call Folly or Madness.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

David Robertson’s The Blackford Folly is set in a Scottish stately home in Victorian times, where two men investigate the disappearance of the Laird who lives there.

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