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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... Kataragama there were practically no villages and neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God . These unfortunate people ...
... Kataragama there were practically no villages and neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God . These unfortunate people ...
Page 228
... Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why now the temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a ...
... Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why now the temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a ...
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... Kataragama with slight regret . The complete self - con- fidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the middle of the Ceylon jungle nearly 4,000 men ...
... Kataragama with slight regret . The complete self - con- fidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the middle of the Ceylon jungle nearly 4,000 men ...
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