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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... Tamil district ; Tamil was the first eastern language which I had to learn and I got to know the people fairly well . They have to work hard and they do work extraordinarily hard to make a living out of a stony , unsmiling , and not , I ...
... Tamil district ; Tamil was the first eastern language which I had to learn and I got to know the people fairly well . They have to work hard and they do work extraordinarily hard to make a living out of a stony , unsmiling , and not , I ...
Page 93
... Tamils . The Tamil crowd was low in tone , rather timid , depressed and complaining in adversity . The Arab superficially was the exact opposite . At the end of the Fishery I went in a small steamer , packed with about 1,000 Arabs and ...
... Tamils . The Tamil crowd was low in tone , rather timid , depressed and complaining in adversity . The Arab superficially was the exact opposite . At the end of the Fishery I went in a small steamer , packed with about 1,000 Arabs and ...
Page 113
... Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or ac- cepted it . It shocked me that these people should think that , as a white man and a ruler of Ceylon , I should consider the brown man , the Tamil , to be one of " the lesser ...
... Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or ac- cepted it . It shocked me that these people should think that , as a white man and a ruler of Ceylon , I should consider the brown man , the Tamil , to be one of " the lesser ...
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