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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... 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.
... 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 79
... ment with those whose duty it is to do justice and protect law and order . Too often one watches the line between the criminal and the policeman or the judge growing thinner and thinner . As I pointed out in Sowing , the faces of ...
... ment with those whose duty it is to do justice and protect law and order . Too often one watches the line between the criminal and the policeman or the judge growing thinner and thinner . As I pointed out in Sowing , the faces of ...
Page 127
... ment . I did not know anything about him and I was that afternoon extremely busy , but one was continually engaged in that kind of transaction and I had the clerk in and told him to put the thing through in the usual way . Some weeks ...
... ment . I did not know anything about him and I was that afternoon extremely busy , but one was continually engaged in that kind of transaction and I had the clerk in and told him to put the thing through in the usual way . Some weeks ...
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