Search results for "Vocation" - New World Encyclopedia
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- made this process their hobby or even their vocation (a shadkhan or "matchmaker"). A professional shadkhan often charges a fee for his or ...25 KB (3,836 words) - 02:27, 9 January 2023
- In 1922, he began formal education in his new vocation at the Prague-based School of Graphic Arts. His teachers, leading "traditionalist" Czech ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- of the AAS. Garrison declared that "My vocation, as an Abolitionist, thank God, has ended." Returning home to Boston, he told his wife ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- that is required for the fulfillment of the human vocation. The Rule of St Benedict has been used by Benedictines for fifteen centuries, and thus ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- force, the circulation of his writings was a vocation zealously pursued. Stories, perhaps apocryphal, tell how on one occasion a merchant, who had ...24 KB (3,543 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- as a form of prophecy. As it is the special vocation of the mystical consciousness to mediate between two orders, going out in loving adoration ...23 KB (3,622 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2023
- they will not betray to stay alive. Man’s vocation should be the use of the arts of intelligence in behalf of human freedom. The Sidney Hook ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- defense lawyer in Paris to his discovered vocation as a “judge-penitent” in the smoky avenues of the Red-light District in Amsterdam. Throughout ...25 KB (3,796 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- His missionary activity was his life's vocation and he also worked to suppress native customs like the potlatch and secret societies. ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- but now I can really focus on finding my true vocation." Rationalization is a post-hoc (after the fact) defense mechanism, connected to ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- governor, where he was forced to prove his vocation by producing several caricatures of the French; particularly a scene of the shore, with an immense ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- in Denmark, who were critical of his chosen vocation. This misunderstanding led Tycho to seek a more congenial environment outside of his native ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- talent as a poet and encouraged him toward this vocation, but was also attracted sexually to the young man and may have had erotic relations with him ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- became disillusioned with his chosen academic vocation. He expressed his aversion by playing a trick on the Modern Language Society of Dublin, reading ...30 KB (4,732 words) - 01:16, 21 April 2023
- of those who have lost the spirit of their vocation. Thus, by command of Urban VIII, the Congregation of the Council (September 21, 1624) decreed: ...31 KB (4,789 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- whose sons were contemplating a monastic vocation. The book is a sharp attack on the values of Antiochene upper-class urban society written ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- the renewal of the order's fortunes and vocation as a humanitarian and religious organization. Hospital work, the original work of the order ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- partly in the hope that he would discover a vocation and join the Order. Joyce, however, was to reject Catholicism by the age of 16, although the philosophy ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- Catholic theology, membership is granted when a vocation, or divine calling is presumed to have occurred. ==Corporal mortification== ...43 KB (6,418 words) - 15:47, 27 March 2024
- curacy, a secure but not enriching vocation, in Haworth, a remote small town some seven miles (11 km) away. In April 1820, the Brontë family ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
