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 111
... became fully aware of it and the awareness brought my first doubts whether I wanted to rule other people , to be an imperialist and proconsul . The Jaffna Tamil Association twice reported me to the Governor and asked for my dismissal ...
... became fully aware of it and the awareness brought my first doubts whether I wanted to rule other people , to be an imperialist and proconsul . The Jaffna Tamil Association twice reported me to the Governor and asked for my dismissal ...
Page 129
... became against " white men " . I had given a strict order to all in the kachcheri that , if a Euro- pean wanted to see me , he was not to be brought into my room until he had sent in his card , explained his business , and I had said ...
... became against " white men " . I had given a strict order to all in the kachcheri that , if a Euro- pean wanted to see me , he was not to be brought into my room until he had sent in his card , explained his business , and I had said ...
Page 204
... became passionately devoted to the boy . I have never known a more charming animal than this bear . He was half - grown when I first knew him , and , when I was on circuit in the jungle or Game Sanctuary with Engelbrecht , he would ...
... became passionately devoted to the boy . I have never known a more charming animal than this bear . He was half - grown when I first knew him , and , when I was on circuit in the jungle or Game Sanctuary with Engelbrecht , he would ...
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