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When I told him that Dr Martin Stephen had 24 hours earlier criticised faith schools as divisive, founded on fear and as failing to teach respect for other faiths, Bishop Chartres, who incidentally inhabits Colet's lovely Old Deanery at the cathedral, condemned these comments as 'astonishing' and 'dangerous'.
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He wrote several poems, prayers, and orations for the new school, but his most important help was that at Colet's request he wrote and published a textbook on how to develop a fine Latin style
Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008
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But during Henry's reign Colet's figure is almost the only one -- apart from such representatives of erudition and scholarship as Grocyn and Linacre -- which stands forth holding out a promise of intellectual and moral progress.
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Where the consent of his Chapter was necessary, Colet's efforts at reform were obstructed.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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As Cardinal and Legate and an aspirant to the Papacy, he could never have lent himself to a policy calculated to weaken the ecclesiastical organisation; he could never have associated himself with Colet's campaign against clerical worldliness, of which there was no more conspicuous example in the kingdom than he.
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Almoner in 1495; did not favour Colet's efforts at reform.
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As the original St. Paul's School became eventually absorbed in Colet's, this latter -- now removed from its old home to stately buildings on the Hammersmith Road, and possessing (1899), as a high master, a worthy successor of
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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The VICARS CHORAL had dwindled down to six by Colet's time, were no longer in priests 'orders, and eventually became laymen pure and simple.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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They include that of William Lyly, the first master of Colet's famous foundation.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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Lyly [23] -- is in one sense a new foundation of Colet's, yet in another is also a continuation of that venerable foundation under the charge of the Chancellor.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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