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Elyot

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Elyot [ˈɛlɪət]
n
(Biographies / Elyot, Sir Thomas (?1490-1546) M, English, MISC: scholar, POLITICS: diplomat) Sir Thomas. ?1490-1546, English scholar and diplomat; author of The Boke named the Governour (1531), a treatise in English on education


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Shakespeare and Sydney are better appreciated in an historical setting while More and Elyot can't be understood without it.
Opposite her, as Elyot, the other half of the cat-and-dog confrontations that Coward has so carefully engineered, John Horton is to be praised for reproducing the Coward attitude without adopting the tiresomely affected Coward delivery.
Shortly after the publication of Wyatt's work, Thomas Elyot brought out a translation of Plutarch's De liberis educandis called The Education or Bringing up of Children.
 
 
 
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