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and dourer than the Sinhalese . The Tamil crowd swarming on the station
platforms or in the villages or in the Jaffna streets has a look and air of its own ,
much less animated ( unless it is angry ) and less gay than the Sinhalese in
Colombo or ...
and dourer than the Sinhalese . The Tamil crowd swarming on the station
platforms or in the villages or in the Jaffna streets has a look and air of its own ,
much less animated ( unless it is angry ) and less gay than the Sinhalese in
Colombo or ...
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Another thing I liked about the Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and
fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a
religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I got to ...
Another thing I liked about the Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and
fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a
religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I got to ...
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A little while afterwards there came by some Sinhalese and the God asked them
to carry him across the river into Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at
that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and
...
A little while afterwards there came by some Sinhalese and the God asked them
to carry him across the river into Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at
that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and
...
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| Title | Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Volume 2 of An autobiography, Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Autobiography, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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