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Page 159
I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious, as I have explained in Sowing, but,
if one must have a religion, Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions.
When I got to Kandy, I had already passed my examination in Tamil and I now ...
I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious, as I have explained in Sowing, but,
if one must have a religion, Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions.
When I got to Kandy, I had already passed my examination in Tamil and I now ...
Page 161
They were often very nice people, but their minds and their everyday life had as
little connection with the Buddhism of the Buddha and my pundit as those of the
ordinary village Rector in England have to do with the Christianity of Christ.
They were often very nice people, but their minds and their everyday life had as
little connection with the Buddhism of the Buddha and my pundit as those of the
ordinary village Rector in England have to do with the Christianity of Christ.
Page 243
We ran as hard as we could to the town and on the way he told me that the
Buddhists and Moslems, armed with sticks and stones and with the posts which
they pulled out of the fences, were fighting one another in front of the mosque.
When I ...
We ran as hard as we could to the town and on the way he told me that the
Buddhists and Moslems, armed with sticks and stones and with the posts which
they pulled out of the fences, were fighting one another in front of the mosque.
When I ...
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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, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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