intrepid, inured to fatigue, despising life, and knowing well how to face death ; although inferior in number, a hundred of them would blush to flee before a thousand foreigners, and, if they did, they would not dare to return to their country. Sentiments... The History of China - Pągina 476per Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1898Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1893 - 456 pągines
...Khan. The Japanese are by nature a military nation, and the Chinese writers themselves describe them as " intrepid, inured to fatigue, despising life,...earliest childhood, render them terrible in battle." Emboldened by their success over the formidable Mongols the Japanese treated the Chinese with contempt,... | |
| Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1898 - 556 pągines
...Khan. The Japanese are by nature a military nation, and the Chinese writers themselves describe them as "intrepid, inured to fatigue, despising life, and...return to their country. Sentiments such as these, wilich are instilled into them from their earliest childhood, render them terrible in battle." Emboldened... | |
| Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1899 - 494 pągines
...China," quotes a passage from a Chinese historian, who describes the Japanese of this period as being "intrepid, inured to fatigue, despising life, and...earliest childhood, render them terrible in battle." This description is as true to-day as it was then, and their prowess appeared as conspicuously off... | |
| Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1900 - 482 pągines
...Khan. The Japanese are by nature a military nation, and the Chinese writers themselves describe them as " intrepid, inured to fatigue, despising life,...earliest childhood, render them terrible in battle." Emboldened by their success over the formidable Mongols the Japanese treated the Chinese with contempt,... | |
| Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1913 - 384 pągines
...China," quotes a passage from a Chinese historian, who describes the Japanese of this period as being " intrepid, inured to fatigue, despising life, and knowing...earliest childhood, render them terrible in battle." This description is as true to-day as it was then, and their prowess was exhibited as conspicuously... | |
| Nakaba Yamada - 1916 - 354 pągines
...a large army, And can do a great deal." Peter Parting's " Universal History." A Chinese historian, describes the Japanese as " intrepid, inured to fatigue,...earliest childhood, render them terrible in battle. While the diplomatic relations between China and Korea and Japan were interrupted greatly by these... | |
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