The Life of Dr. John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's in the Reigns of K. Henry VII and K. Henry VIII and Founder of St. Paul's School: With an Appendix Containing Some Account of the Masters and More Eminent Scholars of that Foundation and Several Original Papers Relating to the Said LifeClarendon Press, 1823 - 437 pages |
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Page 101 - That there was no absolute certainty in human affairs, but for his part he found less corruption in such a body of citizens than in any other order or degree of mankind.
Page 365 - The Practice of True Devotion in relation to the end as well as the means of Religion, with an office for the Holy Communion.
Page 100 - After he had finished all, he left the perpetual care and oversight of the estate, and government of it, not to the clergy, not to the bishop, not to the chapter, nor to any great minister at court; but amongst the married laymen, to the company of mercers. men of probity and reputation. And when he was asked the reason of so committing...
Page 308 - All these Children shall every Childermas? daye come to PAULIS Churche, and hear the Childe Bishop Sermon ; and after be at the Hygh Masse, and each of them offer a penny to the...
Page 99 - ... parts of the school are divided by a curtain, to be drawn at pleasure. Over the master's chair is an image of the child Jesus, of admirable work, in the gesture of teaching; whom all the boys, going and coming, salute with a short hymn: and there is a representation of God the Father, saying, Hear ye him; these words being written at my suggestion.
Page i - The Life of Dr. John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's in The Reigns of K. Henry VII, and Henry VIII, and Founder of St. Paul's School; with an Appendix containing some Account of the Masters and more Eminent Scholars of that Foundation; and Several Original Papers relating to the said Life (London: J.
Page 307 - There shall be taught in the Scole, Children of all Nations and Contres indifferently, to the number of ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY THREE,* according to the number of the Scales in the Scole. The Maister shall admit these Children as they be offirid from tyme to tyme ; but first se, that they canne saye the Catechyzon, and also that he can rede and write competently, else let him not be admitted in no wise.
Page 317 - made the tragedy of Dido out of Virgil, and acted the same with the scholars of his school (St. Paul's, of which he was appointed master in 1522) before Cardinal Wolsey, with great applause.
Page 142 - carried away with those contentments, that you " should be stayed from hastening hither : for if the " discommodities of the city...
Page 16 - VII.), and that our Countryman Linacer taught it him, being just returned from Italy with great Skill in that Language : Which Linacer and William Grocyne were the two only Tutors that were able to teach it" SamL Knight, Life of Dr John Colet, pp.