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 55
... Sinhalese and the Tamils was when I found my- self on the verandah of the kachcheris at Hambantota , Kandy , Vavuniya , and Jaffna . During my first weeks in the Jaffna kachcheri I found the work intolerably dull and boring . The O.A. ...
... Sinhalese and the Tamils was when I found my- self on the verandah of the kachcheris at Hambantota , Kandy , Vavuniya , and Jaffna . During my first weeks in the Jaffna kachcheri I found the work intolerably dull and boring . The O.A. ...
Page 159
... Sinhalese was their religion . 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 ...
... Sinhalese was their religion . 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 ...
Page 228
... Sinhalese and the God asked them to carry him across the river into 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 ...
... Sinhalese and the God asked them to carry him across the river into 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 ...
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