 ... brave, courteous, light-hearted, pleasure-loving people, sentimental rather than passionate, witty and humorous, of nimble apprehension, but not profound ; ingenious and inventive, but hardly capable of high intellectual achievement; of receptive...  A Tragedy in Stone: And Other Papers - Página 231por Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1913 - 343 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William George Aston - 1899 - 440 páginas
...high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. The insular position and political independence of Japan no doubt account partially for the literature... | |
 | Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1902 - 566 páginas
...high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity." — But he adds, " The Japanese are never contented with simple borrowing. In art, political institutions,... | |
 | Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1902 - 566 páginas
...high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity." — But he adds, " The Japanese are never contented with simple borrowing. In art, political institutions,... | |
 | William Elliot Griffis - 1904 - 512 páginas
...high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. — WG ASTON. The Tai Heiki supplies abundant evidence of his [Kojima's] erudition and command of all... | |
 | W. Petrie Watson - 1907 - 432 páginas
...high intellectual achievement ; of receptive minds, endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity.' In a subsequent chapter I have attempted to examine the Japanese mind, and the conclusion is there... | |
 | 1914 - 1244 páginas
...high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. Japanese annalists divide their literature into five periods; the Archaic (joko bun), which begins... | |
 | Francis R. Eldridge - 1923 - 462 páginas
...high intellectual achievement. Of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. . . . The Japanese are never contented with simple borrowing. In art, political institution, and even... | |
 | 1926 - 428 páginas
...high intellectual achievement ; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. A Japanese writer, dealing with what he considers the special national characteristics, sums them up... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1927 - 1272 páginas
...high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. Japanese annalists divide their literature into five periods; the Archaic (joko bun), which begins... | |
 | Ian Nish, James Hoare, Hugh Cortazzi - 1994 - 412 páginas
...intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge; with a turn of neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity. In other words, the Japanese are a fine people but incapable of competing with their Western counterparts... | |
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