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 79
... usually a very nasty and brutish man . But in my case , actual experience from the inside of the administration of law and of what is called justice pro- duced in me an ineradicable and melancholy disillusion- ment with those whose duty ...
... usually a very nasty and brutish man . But in my case , actual experience from the inside of the administration of law and of what is called justice pro- duced in me an ineradicable and melancholy disillusion- ment with those whose duty ...
Page 135
... usually went down to the Kandy Club . In those days in an Asiatic station where there was " the Club " , it was a symbol and centre of British imperialism although perhaps we might not be fully conscious of it . It had normally a ...
... usually went down to the Kandy Club . In those days in an Asiatic station where there was " the Club " , it was a symbol and centre of British imperialism although perhaps we might not be fully conscious of it . It had normally a ...
Page 143
... usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. , kept the G.A.'s key , and arranged with Nugawela Ratemahatmaya for unlocking the door if and when ...
... usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. , kept the G.A.'s key , and arranged with Nugawela Ratemahatmaya for unlocking the door if and when ...
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