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 143
... Temple , placed on the back of an elephant and carried round the Temple in a procession before enormous crowds of Sinhalese who flocked into Kandy for the festival . If shown to distinguished persons , the caskets were taken off so that ...
... Temple , placed on the back of an elephant and carried round the Temple in a procession before enormous crowds of Sinhalese who flocked into Kandy for the festival . If shown to distinguished persons , the caskets were taken off so that ...
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... temple , which would never be allowed in an ordinary Jaffna Hindu temple . Every evening the image of the God was carried in pro- cession to the other temple - a kind of juggernaut pro- cession with the pilgrims following or rolling ...
... temple , which would never be allowed in an ordinary Jaffna Hindu temple . Every evening the image of the God was carried in pro- cession to the other temple - a kind of juggernaut pro- cession with the pilgrims following or rolling ...
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... temple and mutatis mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London's Victoria Street , selling their candles and images of the Blessed Virgin . I went into the temple , where in 1910 I had often gone to talk ...
... temple and mutatis mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London's Victoria Street , selling their candles and images of the Blessed Virgin . I went into the temple , where in 1910 I had often gone to talk ...
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