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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... deal of paternal government unknown in European countries for several hundred years . The machinery of his govern- ment was a large number of headmen , a village headman in each village and superior or chief headmen in charge 55 JAFFNA.
... deal of paternal government unknown in European countries for several hundred years . The machinery of his govern- ment was a large number of headmen , a village headman in each village and superior or chief headmen in charge 55 JAFFNA.
Page 182
... Headmen ) and their subordinate headmen had learned in the last two years my passion for efficiency and intolerance of inefficiency . The enumerators had been drilled so that they really knew how to fill in the forms . The Census night ...
... Headmen ) and their subordinate headmen had learned in the last two years my passion for efficiency and intolerance of inefficiency . The enumerators had been drilled so that they really knew how to fill in the forms . The Census night ...
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... headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come upon them : ( 1 ) the road tax , ( 2 ) the V.C. tax ... headmen or government officers who had worked under me were alive . But on my last day in Colombo , a man who had ...
... headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come upon them : ( 1 ) the road tax , ( 2 ) the V.C. tax ... headmen or government officers who had worked under me were alive . But on my last day in Colombo , a man who had ...
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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf