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  • 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 ...
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  • 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== ...
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  • 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
  • Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation and The Way to a Blessed Life, which had become his favorite book. With Stankevich he also read ...
    43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
  • there is hardly any activity or vocation which the Shah or members of his family or his closest friends do not have a direct or at least a symbolic ...
    53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
  • Lomax also encouraged Seeger's folk singing vocation, and Seeger was soon appearing as a regular performer on Alan Lomax and Nicholas Ray ...
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  • and that there was no such "special religious vocation." Another tract, On the Abolition of Private Mass, argued that the mass did not repeat ...
    61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
  • vocational high schools, which focus on a vocation like tourism, industry, and electrical work, Imam-Hatip high schools, which educate imams ...
    58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
  • attended seminary not because of any religious vocation, but because of the lack of locally available university education. Stalin received a small stipend ...
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  • control required of those pursuing a religious vocation. In response to the modern view that homosexuality is within the range of natural sexual ...
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  • oads/2011/12/Weber-Politics-as-a-Vocation.pdf Politics as a vocation]. Retrieved July 13, 2020. * Wells, J. 2000. Icons of Evolution. Washington ...
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  • "My true country is the free air, and my vocation is art without constraints." The play was unsuccessful; it ran for just 38 performances. ...
    103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023

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