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... samurai . If they spat on a samurai he had to commit harakiri forthwith . Portions of a paper by Miss Helen Birkenhead , entitled " Suma Mura Fifty Years Ago , " were read . The CHAIRMAN thanked the authors in the name of the Society ...
... samurai . If they spat on a samurai he had to commit harakiri forthwith . Portions of a paper by Miss Helen Birkenhead , entitled " Suma Mura Fifty Years Ago , " were read . The CHAIRMAN thanked the authors in the name of the Society ...
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... samurai takes to himself the title reserved in China for the literati and adds arms to letters . The vocation of arms occupies thus the highest place of honour . So too does loyalty take precedence of filial obedience and the ethical ...
... samurai takes to himself the title reserved in China for the literati and adds arms to letters . The vocation of arms occupies thus the highest place of honour . So too does loyalty take precedence of filial obedience and the ethical ...
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... that the famous forty - seven ronin performed their exploit , and Kyusō gave them the name by which they are still remembered , Gi - shi , the Righteous Samurai . He died on the 9th September , 1734 , and KNOX A JAPANESE PHILOSOPHER . 25.
... that the famous forty - seven ronin performed their exploit , and Kyusō gave them the name by which they are still remembered , Gi - shi , the Righteous Samurai . He died on the 9th September , 1734 , and KNOX A JAPANESE PHILOSOPHER . 25.
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... samurai . And his home in the North was Kaga . 3 To Edo , by the Shōgun . 4 The expressions of humility are conventional . Kyusō had the highest influence and honours given by the Tokugawa to a scholar . He was admitted to the immediate ...
... samurai . And his home in the North was Kaga . 3 To Edo , by the Shōgun . 4 The expressions of humility are conventional . Kyusō had the highest influence and honours given by the Tokugawa to a scholar . He was admitted to the immediate ...
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... samurai with an oath promised to forego his purpose . So the official went home content . But on the morrow when he went to the temple with those who had resolved to die together there with the rest was this samurai saying his farewells ...
... samurai with an oath promised to forego his purpose . So the official went home content . But on the morrow when he went to the temple with those who had resolved to die together there with the rest was this samurai saying his farewells ...
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Page 196 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 197 - By reason, blest by faith : what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how ; Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells...
Page 199 - And stepping westward seemed to be A kind of heavenly destiny: I liked the greeting; 'twas a sound Of something without place or bound; And seemed to give me spiritual right To travel through that region bright.
Page 203 - Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near. Though babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours.
Page 40 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 203 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 44 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Page 194 - HARK, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise; Arise, arise. FEAR no more the heat o...
Page 194 - Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. And Phoebus 'gins arise. His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes ; With everything that pretty is — My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Page 46 - It is exceedingly great and exceedingly strong. Being nourished by rectitude, and sustaining no injury, it fills up all between heaven and earth.