Benjamin Jowett


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Noun1.Benjamin Jowett - English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893)
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Translated by Benjamin Jowett. New York: Charles Scribner & Co.
His tutor, Benjamin Jowett, wrote to Florence Nightingale: "Hopkins was one of three foolish fellows at our College who have gone over to Rome."
Benjamin Jowett has said that Plato's "Republic" provided an influential template of this futuristic landscape for later writers such as St Augustine, and the humanist Sir Thomas More.
Benjamin Jowett wrote in his contribution to Essays and Reviews (1860) about the proper way to interpret the Scriptures.
Pickering adds "delusions of grandeur" (478) to his many failings and quotes Benjamin Jowett describing him as "a great man but also mad" (580).
Also of note is Schofield's brief but interesting discussion of the classicism of John Stuart Mill, George Grote and Benjamin Jowett in the nineteenth century, although one laments that he did not say more.
They are among seven students from the University of Bradford selected to receive the Benjamin Jowett Memorial Scholarship on Thursday, April 2.
"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." Benjamin Jowett, English Scholar and theologian
This was largely due to the influence of Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), author of the first complete English translation of Plato's works.
Significant figures of the period make appearances in the play, including John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the Oxford dons whose aesthetic ideas would so influence Housman's generation; Oscar Wilde; Benjamin Jowett, the conservative and bowdlerizing classicist; and Henry Labouchere, the liberal politician whose notorious amendment to the British Criminal Law of 1885 would provide the grounds for Wilde's imprisonment a decade later.