The book Pencil Speakings From Peking was written by author Alexandra Etheldred Von Herder Grantham Here you can read free online of Pencil Speakings From Peking book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Pencil Speakings From Peking a good or bad book?
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(3) Perfect virtue. (4) Study wisdom. (5) Favour merit. (6) Accept advice. (7) Reduce taxation. (8) Moderate punishments. (9) Avoid extravagance. (10) Ban self-indulgence. It was not inner corruption that brought about their fall, but overwhelming pressure from without. Through- 9 180 PENCIL SPEAKINGS FROM PEKING out its history the Middle Kingdom never succeeded in securing to itself an absolutely impregnable northern and western frontier line. And, like modern Germany, it had always much to f...ear and endure from the restless militancy of powerful neighbours. Even that mighty construction the Great Wall provided only a respite, not immunity from invasion. Safety depended entirely on the strength of the army. Under energetic warders of the marches during feudal times, under capable Emperors in the time of centralization in- augurated by Shi Huang Ti, the danger was kept at bay, but at any slackening of the defence, out it leapt again from the depths of its unassailable steppes to pour all the horrors of war and conquest over the luckless Chinese.
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