 Less than all things," says a current precept, " men must grudge money : it is by riches that wisdom is hindered." Hence children were brought up with utter disregard of economy. It was considered bad taste to speak of it, and ignorance of the value of...  A History of Japanese Mathematics - Pàgina 15per David Eugene Smith, Yoshio Mikami - 1914 - 288 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Inazō Nitobe - 1904 - 208 pàgines
...current precept, " men must grudge money : it is by riches that wisdom is hindered." Hence children were brought up with utter disregard of economy. It...breeding. Knowledge of numbers was indispensable in 88 the mustering of forces as well as in the distribution of benefices and fiefs ; but the counting... | |
 | Inazō Nitobe - 1911 - 494 pàgines
...by riches that wisdom is hindered." Hence children were brought up with utter disregard of economv. It was considered bad taste to speak of it, and ignorance...breeding. Knowledge of numbers was indispensable in 88 the mustering of forces as well as in the distribution of benefices and fiefs ; but the counting... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1913 - 410 pàgines
...become a defect of character. The true samurai must have no thought of economy and money-making. " Ignorance of the value of different coins was a token of good breeding." l To handle money was thought degrading. In one respect the code of honor of the Japanese knight was... | |
 | David Eugene Smith, Yoshio Mikami - 1914 - 314 pàgines
...given in an excellent work by WH SHARP, Tke Educational System of Japan. Bombay 1906, pp. i, 10, II. says, "were brought up with utter disregard of economy....considered bad taste to speak of it, and ignorance of the I value of different coins was a token of good breeding. Knowledge of numbers was indispensable in... | |
 | Frederick Redman Clow - 1920 - 462 pàgines
...oblige of the Warrior class. . . . Chivalry is uneconomical : it boasts of penury. . . . Hence children were brought up with utter disregard of economy. It...value of different coins was a token of good breeding. — Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, PP- 4, 97, 98. . . . Wherever there is an ascendant class,... | |
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