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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 unchangeableness except ...
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 unchangeableness except ...
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An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. situations it was only
his absolute lack of imagination which made him obviously not a great man. He
suffered too from being a kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never
grown ...
An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. situations it was only
his absolute lack of imagination which made him obviously not a great man. He
suffered too from being a kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never
grown ...
Page 181
I set out to make the Hambantota District the best administered in the island, and I
do not think that I deceive or flatter myself when I say that I succeeded. I will give
an example or two which will, I think, prove this and will also show the kind of ...
I set out to make the Hambantota District the best administered in the island, and I
do not think that I deceive or flatter myself when I say that I succeeded. I will give
an example or two which will, I think, prove this and will also show the kind of ...
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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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