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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... give me the greatest pleasure both emotionally and intellect- ually . I get deep affection for cats and dogs , and ... gives to my affection for them a mysterious depth or background . I do not think that from the human point of view ...
... give me the greatest pleasure both emotionally and intellect- ually . I get deep affection for cats and dogs , and ... gives to my affection for them a mysterious depth or background . I do not think that from the human point of view ...
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... give Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a leopard crossed our path about 25 yards ahead . Hodson fired and hit the ...
... give Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a leopard crossed our path about 25 yards ahead . Hodson fired and hit the ...
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... give him sight . The God had not heard their prayers and they thought that perhaps if they made the child cry long and loud enough , the God would hear him . They had therefore pinched the child and had even pricked him with pins to ...
... give him sight . The God had not heard their prayers and they thought that perhaps if they made the child cry long and loud enough , the God would hear him . They had therefore pinched the child and had even pricked him with pins to ...
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