A Japanese BoyA Japanese Boy by Himself is an essay written by Shukichi Shigemi when he was a student attending medical school at Yale University in 1889. It was written in English and published by a company in Connecticut, U.S.A. The description of just a common boy's daily life in a countryside contributed to cross-cultural understanding between the two countries at an early stage after the end of the Japanese isolation policy. His book sold well that he could pay for education with this publication to become a qualified doctor. |
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... taken up in America . Circumstances have obliged me to make my own way in this hard world . If I knew of a better step I should not have resorted to an indiscreet juvenile publication -a publication , moreover , of my own idle expe ...
... taken up in America . Circumstances have obliged me to make my own way in this hard world . If I knew of a better step I should not have resorted to an indiscreet juvenile publication -a publication , moreover , of my own idle expe ...
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... taken out samples in the hollow inside of the bamboo stick , the merchant first examines critically the physical qualities of the grains on the palm of his hand , and then pro- ceeds to chew them in order to see how they taste . Years ...
... taken out samples in the hollow inside of the bamboo stick , the merchant first examines critically the physical qualities of the grains on the palm of his hand , and then pro- ceeds to chew them in order to see how they taste . Years ...
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... taken up by the shrine ; the school was kept in the back part of the house . When we first entered the school we were known as the " new- comers " among the older boys , and though bullying was not altogether absent , we had no ordeal ...
... taken up by the shrine ; the school was kept in the back part of the house . When we first entered the school we were known as the " new- comers " among the older boys , and though bullying was not altogether absent , we had no ordeal ...
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... taken out from time to time , washed and sliced and relished with great satisfac- tion . They are something that is sure to be obtained in any house at any time ; with cold rice and hot tea they make up our simplest fare . When I was ...
... taken out from time to time , washed and sliced and relished with great satisfac- tion . They are something that is sure to be obtained in any house at any time ; with cold rice and hot tea they make up our simplest fare . When I was ...
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Shiukichi Shigemi. next player and those in the inside allowed to be taken by the player , should he be able to throw a chip from his hand and lay it on them one by one . If he failed at any moment , the next player gath- ered together ...
Shiukichi Shigemi. next player and those in the inside allowed to be taken by the player , should he be able to throw a chip from his hand and lay it on them one by one . If he failed at any moment , the next player gath- ered together ...
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Page 155 - ... unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 83 - Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, 'Surely,' said I, 'man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 142 - Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural Virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 400 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented Toil, and hospitable Care, And kind connubial Tenderness, are there ; And Piety with wishes placed above, And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love.
Page 212 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 6 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 111 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 211 - Is now the labour of my thoughts ; 'tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars. That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
Page 309 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master and seek for companions.
Page 61 - But by the grace of God I am what I am : and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain ; but I laboured more abundantly than they all : yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Page 110 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...