Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 159
... Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I got to Kandy , I had ...
... Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I got to Kandy , I had ...
Page 227
... Sinhalese villager came with me to show me the way and we got talking about the God and the temples . According to this Sinhalese the Kataragama Deviyo ( God ) was Kandeswami and origin- ally had his temple on the top of the Kataragama ...
... Sinhalese villager came with me to show me the way and we got talking about the God and the temples . According to this Sinhalese the Kataragama Deviyo ( God ) was Kandeswami and origin- ally had his temple on the top of the Kataragama ...
Page 254
... Sinhalese , 156-159 ; Buddhism in , 160 ; marriage laws , 164-165 ; prison and executions , 165- 168 205-208 ; 212 Lewis , John Penry , 35 ; 41- 88 ; 97 44 ; 127 Lewis , Mrs. , 40 ; 42−44 ; Lushington , C. M. , 223 Mannar , 119–127 ...
... Sinhalese , 156-159 ; Buddhism in , 160 ; marriage laws , 164-165 ; prison and executions , 165- 168 205-208 ; 212 Lewis , John Penry , 35 ; 41- 88 ; 97 44 ; 127 Lewis , Mrs. , 40 ; 42−44 ; Lushington , C. M. , 223 Mannar , 119–127 ...
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