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... occasion to quote other writers either for the purpose of accentuating a theory or a fact , or of explaining the manner in which my own opinions differ from theirs , I have done so with all due deference to their point of view . So much ...
... occasion to quote other writers either for the purpose of accentuating a theory or a fact , or of explaining the manner in which my own opinions differ from theirs , I have done so with all due deference to their point of view . So much ...
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... occasion- ally the writers in question have been well known in other spheres of literature , their books have some- times met with a more ready sale than has been the case with many of the valuable works written by real students of ...
... occasion- ally the writers in question have been well known in other spheres of literature , their books have some- times met with a more ready sale than has been the case with many of the valuable works written by real students of ...
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... occasion - an occasion , by the way , of which he rarely avails himself - to thank these residents , from the bottom of his heart , for providing him with the necessaries and luxuries of life , for which he has longed in vain when up ...
... occasion - an occasion , by the way , of which he rarely avails himself - to thank these residents , from the bottom of his heart , for providing him with the necessaries and luxuries of life , for which he has longed in vain when up ...
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... occasion to travel up the country with a very rich Japanese gentleman . He had with him one or two friends , and I noticed that wherever he went he and all of us were treated with the greatest respect . The best of rooms and the best of ...
... occasion to travel up the country with a very rich Japanese gentleman . He had with him one or two friends , and I noticed that wherever he went he and all of us were treated with the greatest respect . The best of rooms and the best of ...
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... occasion of my previous visit I had not been al- lowed to pay for anything ) . She could not under- stand , she said , how her servants had shown me into so dirty ( kitana ) a room ( it was extremely clean , as a matter of fact , though ...
... occasion of my previous visit I had not been al- lowed to pay for anything ) . She could not under- stand , she said , how her servants had shown me into so dirty ( kitana ) a room ( it was extremely clean , as a matter of fact , though ...
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Page 64 - Japan, published in 1872, he directed that "henceforth Education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member.
Page xi - Ransome, Stafford. Japan in transition: a comparative study of the progress, policy and methods of the Japanese since their war with China, 277 pp., 1899.
Page 72 - Elementary schools are designed to give children the rudiments of moral education specially adapted to make of them good members of the community, together with such general knowledge and skill as are necessary for the practical duties of life, due attention being paid to their bodily development.
Page 75 - As regards the length of the courses of study, it should be mentioned here that the course of medicine extends over four years, while in the College of Law, no definite term of study is fixed, but three examination periods are specially prescribed for each course.
Page 74 - Engineering includes the nine courses of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Technology of Arms, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Applied Chemistry, Technology of Explosives, and Mining and Metallurgy, with 29 professorial chairs.