Stagyrite
Americannoun
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O’Rourke has written about that overlap of literature and philosophy in “Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations From Aristotle,” among other works.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2015
D'ye catch me, my small Stagyrite, my petit Peripatetic, my comical Academician, eh?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay
He was a native of Stagyra, in Macedonia, and is hence often called the Stagyrite.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design; And rules as strict his labour'd work confine, As if the Stagyrite o'erlook'd each line.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
Yet, strange to say, the Logic of the Schools prides itself in leaving us where the Stagyrite left us.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
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