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Many people dislike the arid sterility of this kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart and my bones , its austere beauty , its immobility and ...
Many people dislike the arid sterility of this kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart and my bones , its austere beauty , its immobility and ...
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He suffered too from being a kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never grown up into the world of reality and 1906 . He had an instinctive grasp of a “ situation ” and of the person with whom he was “ dealing ” .
He suffered too from being a kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never grown up into the world of reality and 1906 . He had an instinctive grasp of a “ situation ” and of the person with whom he was “ dealing ” .
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I will give an example or two which will , I think , prove this and will also show the kind of life which I had to lead and the kind of work that an “ imperialist ” administrator ...
I will give an example or two which will , I think , prove this and will also show the kind of life which I had to lead and the kind of work that an “ imperialist ” administrator ...
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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 Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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