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Page 55
He was responsible for all municipal and local government, for all minor roads
and minor irrigation works, for sale or development of Crown Lands, for welfare
work, for law and order, and for a great deal of paternal government unknown in ...
He was responsible for all municipal and local government, for all minor roads
and minor irrigation works, for sale or development of Crown Lands, for welfare
work, for law and order, and for a great deal of paternal government unknown in ...
Page 66
He must, I suppose, when a boy, have had a brain a good deal better than the
average, and so he won scholarships which lifted him out of the welter of the
elementary school into the Ceylon Civil Service. Unfortunately this meant that he
was ...
He must, I suppose, when a boy, have had a brain a good deal better than the
average, and so he won scholarships which lifted him out of the welter of the
elementary school into the Ceylon Civil Service. Unfortunately this meant that he
was ...
Page 92
... less comfortable — and I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when I
left the koddu about midnight, I was recovered. There was a great deal to be said
against our rule of Ceylon, which, of course, was bleak "imperialism" or what is ...
... less comfortable — and I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when I
left the koddu about midnight, I was recovered. There was a great deal to be said
against our rule of Ceylon, which, of course, was bleak "imperialism" or what is ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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