Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Page 111
... became fully aware of it and the awareness brought my first doubts whether I wanted to rule other people , to be an imperialist and proconsul . The Jaffna Tamil Association twice reported me to the Governor and asked for my dismissal ...
... became fully aware of it and the awareness brought my first doubts whether I wanted to rule other people , to be an imperialist and proconsul . The Jaffna Tamil Association twice reported me to the Governor and asked for my dismissal ...
Page 159
... became my pundit and taught me Sinhalese . Gradually I got to like him very much ; we became friends and I used to go up into the Octagon of an evening when I could find time and sit with him on a kind of verandah overlooking the Lake ...
... became my pundit and taught me Sinhalese . Gradually I got to like him very much ; we became friends and I used to go up into the Octagon of an evening when I could find time and sit with him on a kind of verandah overlooking the Lake ...
Page 225
... became completely immersed , not only in my work , but in the life of the people . The more remote that life was from my own , the more absorbed I became in it and the more I enjoyed it . In July , 1910 , I had to go and superintend the ...
... became completely immersed , not only in my work , but in the life of the people . The more remote that life was from my own , the more absorbed I became in it and the more I enjoyed it . In July , 1910 , I had to go and superintend the ...
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