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theirbelligerent co-operation with the English against the Spaniards, theysucceeded in faring prosperously for a time. ery kind had theapproval of the Chinese writers on military ethics whose books wereregarded as classics by the Japanese. (5) Rise early. pplying famous stanzas of which only a word or so wasgiven; making riddles in verse; writing verse or d

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