Search results for "Vocation" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to all this was derision, and he made it his vocation to set out a rational, naturalistic account both of the world and of the human place in it ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- Housman always found his true vocation in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary activity. He never spoke about his poetry in public ...10 KB (1,687 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- * Initiation into a mystical vocation: "the vocation of a medicine man or a shaman." This is limited to the few who are "destined ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- elder son, John, was now old enough to choose a vocation, and became a miniature-painter. The second child, Peggy, had begun to paint also, amateurishly ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- their son gave early evidence of a religious vocation. ===A gifted speaker=== He was educated under the Conventual Franciscans of Brindisi. Already ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- because of his age, and returned to his former vocation as a preacher. He delivered a course of sermons at Angers, and in the next year moved to Bordeaux ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- small town. Her father continued to resist her vocation, telling her, “I would almost rather see you dead!” and paid only for her basic needs. ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- Like his student Crates, Diogenes seemed to have a vocation to provoke others into elevating their understanding of moral value, and for promoting virtue ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- October 4, 1416. His superiors, fearing this vocation to be a passing fancy, tested him severely, even sending him away twice; but he remained day and ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- Cesare's religious vocation was never strong, and he gained a reputation at the papal court for his womanizing, lavish clothing, and hunting ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- #To pursue my religious vocation with integrity upon graduation. ==Notable Alumni== *Gordon Anderson - president of Paragon House, editor-in-chief ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- of the French Revolution caused him to give this vocation up, and in its place, he accepted a chair in mathematics at the Military School of Auxerre ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- eldest sister and her husband to teach him his vocation. In 1885, after passing his examinations and presenting "a tail-coat, well-made," ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- Marian attended William Penn High School until her music vocation arose. She transferred to South Philadelphia High School, focusing on music ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- methods to help students explore vocation needs and interests. Classroom guidance lessons are designed to be preventive in nature and include ...17 KB (2,422 words) - 08:00, 8 January 2024
- however, forbade anyone to interfere with her vocation. ===Ascetic tradition=== Catherine now wore a habit and white veil, which showed her to ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- poetry, which he felt was incompatible with his vocation. Writing would remain something of a painful concern for him as he felt that his interest in ...14 KB (2,348 words) - 20:30, 13 December 2023
- Frank Gilbreth discovered his vocation when, as a young building contractor, he sought ways to make bricklaying faster and easier. This grew ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- in the robes of monks at various stages of their vocation. One difference is that rhe robes of getshül novices do not include the "holes" ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- 19, 2023. Walcott had an early sense of a vocation as a writer. In the poem ... prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation." ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- Struck blind at the age of seven, Charles found his vocation as a rhythm and blues artist early in his life. For much of his adult years Charles ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- In Naples Boccaccio began what he considered his true vocation, poetry. Works produced in this period include Filostrato (the source for Chaucer ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- related to a specific trade, occupation, or "vocation." Vocational education might be contrasted with education in a usually broader scientific ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- rigorous and imbued with a sense of vocation to he help the sick and injured. Nightingale has referred to her longing and subsequent career as ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- of the 1840s and 1850s, Dickinson found her vocation as a poet. Most of her work is reflective of life's small moments and some larger issues ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- to the religious life," a valid lay vocation. Ibid, p 14. =====Crusades===== [[Image:B Urban II2.jpg|thumb|left|Pope Urban II preaches the ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- with even greater energy and with a second vocation as a health campaigner. He advocated vegetarianism, avoiding red meat, and exercise, writing How ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- embraces is considered to be his vocation; that is to say, it is dependent ... a visit to a monastery and tests his vocation. Usually he must spend some ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- away from their original military vocation was the essence of the system's demise. ==Janissary corps== [[Image:Surname 22b.jpg|thumb|250px ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- ; "A Vocation and a Voice" ; "Ti Demon" ; "The White Eagle" ; "A Pair of Silk Stockings" ; "Vagabonds ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- the young novice began his new vocation as an author and theologian. When one of his friends began espousing the Christological position later ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
- became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often read and discussed one another's work. Though this did not have much perceptible ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- thinker and philosopher of this vocation that was in its infancy when he opened his office in New York in June 1919. (Cutlip 1994) ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- Christ died for all men, and since the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- their classical settings to explore the poetic vocation, particularly as it applies to women in a patriarchal literary culture. The Madrigal cycle ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- André Belliver. 1956. Henri Poincaré ou la vocation souveraine. ... * Belliver, André. 1956. Henri Poincaré ou la vocation souveraine ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- * Sadāchāra - attention to vocation and duty. * Sivāchāra - acknowledging Shiva as the one God and equality among members. * Bhrityāchāra ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- the fulfillment of the entire moral vocation every moment though it can only be done in a definite sphere. Duties are divided with reference ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- by this recollection that he almost abandoned his vocation. To deal with the temptation, he tortured his body by wallowing naked in brambles, badly tearing ...20 KB (3,232 words) - 09:12, 27 September 2023
- He at once put his vocation to the test by going back to his home village, Rampur, where he received an unexpectedly warm welcome. The sixteen ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- 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
