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In Wikipedia:
From this, however, he resigned in 1832, his thoughts having turned towards a clerical career under Evangelical influences, which affected him deeply throughout life.
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In Wikipedia:
Went married Rosemary Dunn in 1968 before embarking on a clerical career with a curacy in Northwood, London followed by an incumbency at Margate.
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In Wikipedia:
Born on 13 December 1947, he was educated at Westcliff High School and Keble College, Oxford before embarking on a clerical career.
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In the British National Corpus:
Kilvert’s clerical career was entirely undistinguished, and although he wrote a quantity of verse and made a collection of Radnorshire folklore, none of his writings, except trivia, was published in his lifetime.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Looking for PREMIUM TICKETS 0Carrie Underwood, Tony Keith, AC DC, Jimmy Buffett, Celine Dion, Metallica, Madonna, Jonas Brother, Cold Play, Janet, Weezer, Eagles comparing the albatross to the Catholic cross the song being about life as a Irish Catholic school rebel – youngsterEdmund Mortimer had been a second son intended for minor orders and a clerical career but on the sudden death of his elder brother Edmund was recalled fromproject To build the plaza Hartford’s historic Front Street neighborhood was razed The complex is comprised of numerous office buildings underground parking a restaurant broadcasting studio and outdoor courtyards and fountains During the holiday season the area is filled withthe country was ruled by Mortimer and Isabella who were widely believed to have arranged the murder of
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In Wikipedia:
Educated at Felsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge he then embarked on a clerical career that was to last over 40 years.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
During his clerical career, Owen was known to be strongly opposed to Methodism, complaining about the Methodist nature of circulating schools in the area and taking proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts against those who supported Methodists, often leading to excommunication.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Eric Arvidsson was born around 1460 in an important family of high nobility and was apparently aiming at a clerical career.
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In Wikipedia:
He chose a clerical career, became an abb and lived most of his life in Rouen, where he accepted membership in the local academy in 1764, and taught in the citys college from 1764 to 1774.
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In Wikipedia:
Their oldest son, John, inherited the family estate, whereas Thomas and his younger brother Edmund were placed on the path to a clerical career.
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In Wikipedia:
After studying the humanities, rhetoric, theology, and law at La Roche, Annecy, Paris, and Padua, he famously refused to marry the wealthy heiress his father had chosen as his bride, preferring a clerical career.
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In the British National Corpus:
Gaillard inherited the Lacour-Durfort lands in 1345, after his marriage to Marguerite de Caumont, and his clerical career was abruptly terminated.
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In Wikipedia:
Dubourg completed his course and was ordained in March 1790, in an auspicious time for the commencement of a clerical career in France.
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In Wikipedia:
As Konrad prepared himself for a clerical career in Fulda his brother Bolesaw administered his possessions until Konrads early dead, when Bolesaw incorporated Konrads part into his own duchy.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Radim chose a clerical career as did Adalbert, and took the name Gaudentius.
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In Wikipedia:
As such, his parents prepared him for a clerical career.
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In the British National Corpus:
Cesar appears to have been destined for a clerical career from the start.
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In Wikipedia:
After university he took Holy Orders and embarked on a clerical career that was to last for over 40 years.
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In Wikipedia:
Portrait of Charles Lamb by William Hazlitt, 1804 Charles Lamb suffered from a stutter and this “an inconquerable impediment” in his speech deprived him of Grecian status at Christ’s Hospital and thus disqualifying him for a clerical career.
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(. .)))
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