Word: jowett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After breakfast, he remains at the table, reads out loud from Sunlit Days (a poem and a prayer for each day of the year). Then a guest reads to him from My Daily Meditation by the late Rev. J. H. Jowett and from a modern version of the New Testament...
Edited with an introduction by Prof. William C. Greene. A practically complete edition of Plato is offered in this judicious selection from all his work in the famous Jowett Translation. By its careful weaving together, the book offers a complete presentation of the human philosophy of Plato--of all philosophers the most sympathetic to the general reader...
English biographical work), perhaps the greatest "late Victorian" authority on the life of Shakespeare, author of a biography of Edward VII (by request of George V) and of a fiercely criticized biography of Queen Victoria; at London. It was at the suggestion of the great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, that he altered his original name "Solomon Lazarus" to "Sidney Lee" (in order to attain literary eminence more easily...
...private member who was responsible for selecting Jacob Epstein's memorial to William H. Hudson, the naturalist, whose stone effigy in panel (TIME, June 1, ART) is situate in Hyde Park. Comdr. Lampson replied: "The First Commissioner of Public Works in the Labor Government [Rt. Hon. F. W. Jowett]." A Labor Member hastened to say that a large number of people thought the memorial was distinguished and appropriate. Several Conservatives thought otherwise. One: That all memorials likely to cause acrimonious discussion be kept from public parks; another: That the sculptor, "owing to his inadequate knowledge of the English language...
Here, wrote Salem G. Bland, Canadian divine, in The Christian Century, last week, is the "tragedy of Dr. Jowett...