A Gentleman in Prison: With the Confessions of Tokichi Ishii, Written in Tokyo Prison |
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... LEARNED FROM SUFFERING · 109 VI A SPARROW TEACHES A LESSON 110 VII THE STORY OF THE MINER VIII THE TRUE HEART OF A CHILD · 112 · · 113 IX THOSE TWO FRIENDS OF MINE 114 X PARADOXES 116 XI BICYCLES XII THE HAUNTED WELL . XIII ABOUT ...
... LEARNED FROM SUFFERING · 109 VI A SPARROW TEACHES A LESSON 110 VII THE STORY OF THE MINER VIII THE TRUE HEART OF A CHILD · 112 · · 113 IX THOSE TWO FRIENDS OF MINE 114 X PARADOXES 116 XI BICYCLES XII THE HAUNTED WELL . XIII ABOUT ...
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... learned my lesson then , but instead , my companion and I continued in our evil ways . I was subsequently caught , however , and found my- self in the police station for the first time in my life . I was scared to death . I was alone in ...
... learned my lesson then , but instead , my companion and I continued in our evil ways . I was subsequently caught , however , and found my- self in the police station for the first time in my life . I was scared to death . I was alone in ...
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... learned in prison ; and my mother , my wife and I lived together happily for nearly three years , although we had very little to live on . During my days of wrongdoing I had never known what true happiness meant , even when I had plenty ...
... learned in prison ; and my mother , my wife and I lived together happily for nearly three years , although we had very little to live on . During my days of wrongdoing I had never known what true happiness meant , even when I had plenty ...
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... learned long afterwards , when I returned from prison , that my wife and mother went back to their old home in Nagoya , where my mother shortly after- wards died brokenhearted on account of her wayward son . This prison where I spent ...
... learned long afterwards , when I returned from prison , that my wife and mother went back to their old home in Nagoya , where my mother shortly after- wards died brokenhearted on account of her wayward son . This prison where I spent ...
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... learned that they were talking about the crimes I had just committed in Toyohashi and Okazaki . I made some casual inquiries of them , and was told that two or three days before , robberies had been committed at both Toyohashi and ...
... learned that they were talking about the crimes I had just committed in Toyohashi and Okazaki . I made some casual inquiries of them , and was told that two or three days before , robberies had been committed at both Toyohashi and ...
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Page 78 - Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Page 94 - Just as I am, without one plea But that thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come.
Page 95 - Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind ; Sight, riches, healing of the mind, Yea, all I need, in Thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come...
Page 152 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 116 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 77 - And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem...
Page 78 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 77 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 78 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Page 160 - The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul.