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Jowett   /dʒˈaʊɪt/   Listen
Jowett

noun
1.
English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893).  Synonym: Benjamin Jowett.





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"Jowett" Quotes from Famous Books



... BALFOUR informed Mr. JOWETT at Question-time that the only commitments of Great Britain to France are contained in the Treaty of Alliance of September 5th, 1914, which has been duly published, he knocked the foundation from under ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917 • Various
... “Your father,” writes Jowett, with his usual wisdom, to Lord Tennyson, “was very sensitive, and had an honest hatred of being gossiped about. He called the malignant critics and chatterers ‘mosquitos.’ He never felt any pleasure at praise (except from his friends), but he felt a great ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton


Words linked to "Jowett" :   classicist, classical scholar, interpreter, translator


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