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SOON suburb is urban , as a rule horribly and hideously urban , and markedly
different from the countryside and the rural village . When you pass from the town
and its suburbs into the country you pass from one life or age into another .
SOON suburb is urban , as a rule horribly and hideously urban , and markedly
different from the countryside and the rural village . When you pass from the town
and its suburbs into the country you pass from one life or age into another .
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to speak Sinhalese , sitting under a tree in a village or on the bund of a village
tank and discussing with the villagers their interminable problems , disputes ,
grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time , after fifty years , the
moment ...
to speak Sinhalese , sitting under a tree in a village or on the bund of a village
tank and discussing with the villagers their interminable problems , disputes ,
grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time , after fifty years , the
moment ...
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The village headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come
upon them : ( 1 ) the road tax , ( 2 ) the V . C . tax , ( 3 ) the irrigation rate , ( 4 ) the
taxes on carts and guns , ( 5 ) the restriction of chenas , ( 6 ) a strict Assistant ...
The village headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come
upon them : ( 1 ) the road tax , ( 2 ) the V . C . tax , ( 3 ) the irrigation rate , ( 4 ) the
taxes on carts and guns , ( 5 ) the restriction of chenas , ( 6 ) a strict Assistant ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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