A Gentleman in Prison: With the Confessions of Tokichi Ishii, Written in Tokyo Prison |
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... mother was greatly dis- tressed over household matters . She was devoted to me and often went without the necessities of life her- self in order to provide for me , her only child . When I was ten years of age I left school and my mother ...
... mother was greatly dis- tressed over household matters . She was devoted to me and often went without the necessities of life her- self in order to provide for me , her only child . When I was ten years of age I left school and my mother ...
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... mother was very proud and felt keenly the family disgrace . Things went from bad to worse and for " My more than a year we were in very great distress . Then another misfortune befell the family . mother was taken ill with a very bad ...
... mother was very proud and felt keenly the family disgrace . Things went from bad to worse and for " My more than a year we were in very great distress . Then another misfortune befell the family . mother was taken ill with a very bad ...
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... Mother . I won the reputation amongst the neighbours of being a very filial child . My mother finally got well , and that without having been seen even once by a doctor . GAMBLING III . GAMBLING A little later my father returned [ 32 ] ...
... Mother . I won the reputation amongst the neighbours of being a very filial child . My mother finally got well , and that without having been seen even once by a doctor . GAMBLING III . GAMBLING A little later my father returned [ 32 ] ...
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... mother , ransomed a prostitute and made her my wife . I straightened up , however , and started watch- making , a trade I had learned in prison ; and my mother , my wife and I lived together happily for nearly three years , although we ...
... mother , ransomed a prostitute and made her my wife . I straightened up , however , and started watch- making , a trade I had learned in prison ; and my mother , my wife and I lived together happily for nearly three years , although we ...
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... mother was seventy - two years of age . I took my wife's advice , moved up to Tokyo with my family and rented a small house in Asa- kusa ward . This was in April , 1902. My wife began selling small wares , and I wandered about looking ...
... mother was seventy - two years of age . I took my wife's advice , moved up to Tokyo with my family and rented a small house in Asa- kusa ward . This was in April , 1902. My wife began selling small wares , and I wandered about looking ...
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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.