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I will confess though (perhaps my church-school education prejudiced me) that I am a fan of Queen Mary, I think she has been very unfairly treated and (again, maybe a product of the sort of books I read) Elizabeth I has always seemed rather awful to me; in personality and policies.
Fires of Faith elena maria vidal 2009
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I had an extended dream about playing ultimate frisbee in the social hall of the church-school I used to attend.
February 10th, 2003 2003
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In fact, even at this excellent church-school, these exceptions did considerable "cussing."
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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The influence of the constant religious work done in this church-school and school-church is felt a hundred miles around.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896 Various
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It was in front of a new building -- a church-school half completed.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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For she had travelled much abroad and though she supposed herself to have entered through the cellar some church-school or cathedral establishment, of which there were not a few in her city, unconsciously she spoke of a monastery, as if she had met this holy brother in such a place.
In the Border Country Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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This was a seminary for young ladies, and it was a church-school.
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Then, during the first six decades of the nineteenth century, the transition from the church-school idea to the conception of education as an important function of the State was made, and the resulting system is largely French in organization and form.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Instead, we should have had a series of feeble, jealous, antagonistic, and utterly inefficient church-school systems, chiefly confined to elementary education, and each largely intent on teaching its peculiar church doctrines and struggling for an increasing share of public funds.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Parents were suspicious of a non-sectarian school, the idea of which was so contrary to that of the traditional church-school.
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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