Admitted to the bar in 1836, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and began to practice law under John T. Stuart, Mary Todd's cousin.

He partnered with Stephen T. Logan from 1841 until 1844, when he began his practice with William Herndon, whom Lincoln thought " a studious young man ".

From about the 4th century certain psalms began to be grouped together, a process that was furthered by the monastic practice of daily reciting the 150 psalms.

Once judges began to regard each other's decisions to be binding precedent, the pre-Norman system of local customs and law varying in each locality was replaced by a system that was ( at least in theory, though not always in practice ) common throughout the whole country, hence the name " common law.

This practice began with the Qin Dynasty: in 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang united the various warring kingdoms and created the first Chinese empire.

In the twelfth century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them being assigned a church in Rome as his titular church, or being linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.

By the 1990s Conservative Judaism continued to flourish, yet dichotomies of practice and belief, which had been present for years, began to formulate.

In the early 1920s, dance studies ( dance practice, critical theory, Musical analysis and history ) began to be considered an academic discipline.

From the time when letters began to be forged in his name ( 2 Thess 2: 2 ; 3: 17 ) it seems to have been his practice to close with a few words in his own handwriting, as a precaution against such forgeries ...

Whereas Parker started with practice and then moved to theory, Dewey began with hypotheses and then devised methods and curricula to test them.

In 1760, Boudinot was admitted to the bar, and began his practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The charismatic movement began in the 1960s and resulted in Pentecostal theology and practice being introduced into many mainline denominations.

He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1910, was admitted to the bar the same year, and began a law practice in New York City.

This portraiture of gladiators has been the highest interest in art for many centuries now, but it was Gaius Terentius who began the practice of having pictures made of gladiatorial shows and exhibited in public ; in honour of his grandfather who had adopted him he provided thirty pairs of Gladiators in the Forum for three consecutive days, and exhibited a picture of the matches in the Grove of Diana.

The upper and middle classes began to practice birth control, and a little later so too did the peasants.

Deviating from the prevalent practice of basing a sermon on the Gospel lesson of a particular Sunday, he began to read through the Gospel of Matthew giving his interpretation during the sermon, known as the method of lectio continua.

The German practice of electing monarchs began when ancient Germanic tribes formed ad hoc coalitions and elected the leaders thereof.

The British historian Joseph Needham and the American historian Robert Temple write that the practice of inoculation for smallpox began in China during the 10th century.

Berry and Torrence had adjoining lockers, and after football practice, they began harmonizing together in the showers with several other football players.

He began a practice in Chicago, served as an assistant instructor at Union and with fellow attorney Clarence Darrow helped found the nonpartisan Chicago Civic Centre Club, devoted to municipal reform.

As white people began going to Harlem to watch black dancers, according to Langston Hughes: " The lindy-hoppers at the Savoy even began to practice acrobatic routines, and to do absurd things for the entertainment of the whites, that probably never would have entered their heads to attempt for their own effortless amusement.

While continuing his traditional neoclassical design practice Mies began to develop visionary projects that, though mostly unbuilt, rocketed him to fame as an architect capable of giving form that was in harmony with the spirit of the emerging modern society.

In 1885, Zamenhof graduated from a university and began his practice as a doctor in Veisiejai and after 1886 as an ophthalmologist in Płock and Vienna.

This practice began in the city of Santo Amaro, Bahia, in the northeastern part of the country.

However, tension soon arose as the Tendai community began taking steps to suppress both Zen and Jōdo Shinshū, the new forms of Buddhism in Japan.

What Merton meant by Zen Buddhism was the religion that began in China and spread to Japan as well as the rituals and institutions that accompanied it.

In the 5th century, the Chán ( Zen ) teachings began in China, traditionally attributed to the Indian monk Bodhidharma, a legendary figure.

Johnson worked part-time at the Orientalia Bookstore in the Lower East Side as he began to deepen his understanding of Zen philosophy and to employ " chance " in his work.

He has had a regular meditation practice since 1996 and began meditating with a trip to Tassajara, a Zen Buddhist monastery, before attending Stanford.

Around this time he also met the venerable Zen master Hodo Tobase of the Soto Zen sect and began studying Chinese Calligraphy ( 1952-57 ).

A year later he began Zen study with Sogaku Shaku, a disciple of the Rinzai Zen Buddhist Abbot Soyen Shaku.

In 1956, Enomiya-Lassalle began studying Zen with Harada Daiun Sogaku.

Retiring early, he began practicing Zen Buddhism in intensive retreats taught at Dharma Drum Retreat Center in New York by Chan Master Sheng Yen of Dharma Drum Mountain, Taiwan, who in 1993 transmitted to him the authority to teach Chinese Zen.

While in Korea, Blyth began to learn Japanese and Chinese, and studied Zen under the master Hanayama Taigi of Myōshin-ji Keijo Betsuin ( Seoul ).

At first there were only a few monks there, but soon word spread, and Zen students began to come from all over the country to study with Hakuin.

Some of these students began calling their group City Center, and they incorporated in 1962 as the San Francisco Zen Center.

Zen Budokai Aiki Jujitsu was founded by Raymond " Duke " Moore who began his training in the 1940s with Ray Law.

In 1960, he began studying Soto Zen with Shunryu Suzuki in San Francisco and became one of his first students .< ref name =" Events ">

He began studying Zen Buddhism in 1990 and visited various monasteries in Eastern Asia, including Higashi Honganji Honzon in Kyoto, Japan.

Throughout his career Jackson worked with several filmmakers, including Roger Corman and James Cameron, but it was not until he began a long collaboration with American filmmaker Scott Shaw that the team created Zen Filmmaking.

Starting in this period Zen institutions began to give permission to lay followers to practice Zen.

In 1627, Renier Zen, one of the Capi of the Ten, began a campaign against what he saw as despotism and corruptions on the part of the Council.

In 1935, when he was studying economics in Tokyo, Deshimaru began to practice under Sōtō Zen Master Kodo Sawaki.

Soen had recently began corresponding with Nyogen Senzaki ( now in Los Angeles ) in 1935, whose unconventional style of Zen teaching Soen greatly appreciated.