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
... passed through his hands and , if he was a first - rate civil servant , whatever was submitted for de- cision by him to the G.A. would be properly and clearly set out by him with a minute and probably a suggestion or recommendation . If ...
... passed through his hands and , if he was a first - rate civil servant , whatever was submitted for de- cision by him to the G.A. would be properly and clearly set out by him with a minute and probably a suggestion or recommendation . If ...
Page 113
... passed near his face . The Governor and the Government accepted my explanation , but I doubted - and doubt - whether the Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or ac- cepted it . It shocked me that these people should think ...
... passed near his face . The Governor and the Government accepted my explanation , but I doubted - and doubt - whether the Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or ac- cepted it . It shocked me that these people should think ...
Page 243
... passing a place of worship belonging to a different religious community . In this case the row had begun when the Buddhist procession , contrary to the terms of the licence , beat their tom - toms while passing the mosque . Some Moslems ...
... passing a place of worship belonging to a different religious community . In this case the row had begun when the Buddhist procession , contrary to the terms of the licence , beat their tom - toms while passing the mosque . Some Moslems ...
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