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  • When his aristocratic family fell on hard times, Ogilvy became a scholarship student at a Dickensian boarding school, St. Cyprian's, his father's alma mater.

    The King of Madison Avenue 2011

  • The photographer Cecil Beaton had been at St. Cyprian's at the same time as Connolly and Blair, surviving by charm and the ability to placate by singing "If you were the only girl in the world, and I were the only boy."

    Such, Such Was Eric Blair Barnes, Julian 2009

  • Well, says Miss Buddicom, she knows for a fact that Eric "had no homosexual tendencies" (otherwise her brother would have said something), so that probably explains why no one at St Cyprian's made a special pet of him.

    Eric & Us: The Postscript 2007

  • If Connolly was by his own admission a tame rebel at St. Cyprian's, Orwell was a true one: Connolly wrote that Blair "alone among the boys was an intellectual and not a parrot."

    Such, Such Was Eric Blair Barnes, Julian 2009

  • In Cyprian's time it was much controverted between him and Demetrius an idolater, who should be the cause of those present calamities.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For a contrary view, see Eric Blair--- not the one who occasionally posts here, but the other one-- The various codes which were presented to you at St Cyprian's — religious, moral, social and intellectual — contradicted one another if you worked out their implications.

    Heroes Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • For a contrary view, see Eric Blair--- not the one who occasionally posts here, but the other one-- The various codes which were presented to you at St Cyprian's — religious, moral, social and intellectual — contradicted one another if you worked out their implications.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • Such statements and admonitions recur again and again in Cyprian's letters (Ep., 55,21; 59,14 et al.).

    Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution' - Archbishop 2006

  • The first Vatican Council took up Cyprian's formula of 'episcopatus unus et indivisus' and gave it a prominent position (DS, 3951); this was later reiterated by the Second Vatican Council (LG, 18), which added depth to the theology of the episcopal office in the early church tradition with the concept of episcopal collegiality (particularly LG, 22f).

    Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution' - Archbishop 2006

  • Such statements and admonitions recur again and again in Cyprian's letters (Ep., 55,21; 59,14 et al.).

    Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution' 2006

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