. Historical portraits ... rasmus first met in 1498; Colet did all he could to induce thegreat scholar to take up his residence in England, and when, onhis fathers death, he became a rich man (1505) he gave Erasmus apension. In 1504 Colet was made Dean of St. Pauls, and in thatcapacity first became intimate with Thomas More, though it isprobable that they had already met in Oxford. The large fortunewhich Colet inherited from the deceased Lord Mayor was prin-cipally expended by him in the foundation of St. Pauls School,the first Public School of the New learning, in which Greek andclassical, as
. Historical portraits ... rasmus first met in 1498; Colet did all he could to induce thegreat scholar to take up his residence in England, and when, onhis fathers death, he became a rich man (1505) he gave Erasmus apension. In 1504 Colet was made Dean of St. Pauls, and in thatcapacity first became intimate with Thomas More, though it isprobable that they had already met in Oxford. The large fortunewhich Colet inherited from the deceased Lord Mayor was prin-cipally expended by him in the foundation of St. Pauls School,the first Public School of the New learning, in which Greek andclassical, as opposed to ecclesiastical Latin were to be the mainsubjects of study. The foundation was commenced in 1509 andcompleted in 1518, the year before the Deans death. Colet tookthe most elaborate pains both to compile and to get compiledsound school-books for its boys. His sermons in St. Pauls Cathedral,in which he openly denounced the unblushing corruption of hisclerical contemporaries, had meanwhile got him into trouble with. in 00 u o U ^^ r: Ui ^ ■■J r^ < u z •5 — 0 m c0 < in in 3 <u O i;? X 0 a, oo p
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