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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: they might observe in Date's conduct. They bound themselves and their descendants to serve the Taiko (Hideyoshi) and his heirs for ever. If they violated any of these pledges they called down on themselves foul leprosy, the anger of heaven during seven generations, and eternal suffering. A copy of this ironclad oath was preserved by Hideyoshi and another put in Hideyoshi's coffin. Though Date cleared himself of the charges made against him and thus saved his head, yet there probably was some fire where there was so much smoke. He very likely coquetted with possibilities, and was often ready to take a glance along the road his ambition wanted to travel. But so shrewd a man as he was, would not be caught napping. If he could have overthrown his master he would have been thoroughly in keeping with the spirit and custom of the times to do so. That he had the desire to do this can hardly be doubted, but he was strong enough himself to value and respect greater strength in another. The experience gained from all these accusations and examinations made him all the more cautious in venturing on the stormy sea. As he grew older, either he resolutely turned his ear against all tempting propositions or his enemies ceased to try to entrap him. At any rate his biography after this describes but few examinations for intrigue, and towards the end it relates how faithful Date was to the Tokugawa family, and how he was very active in heading off incipient plots. CHAPTER IH. DATE AND THE TOKUGAWA. On the death of Hideyoshi in the year 1598, the great organiser leyasu came into control of affairs, and the Shogunate remained in his family for nearly three centurieswithout a break in their power. He was not a warrior, though he was successful in the few encounters he had, but he was emph...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217770330 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217770339 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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