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 37
... fact happened was that I had put the finishing touches to a façade behind which I could con- ceal or camouflage my intellect and also hide from most people , both in Ceylon and for the remainder of my life , the fact that I am mentally ...
... fact happened was that I had put the finishing touches to a façade behind which I could con- ceal or camouflage my intellect and also hide from most people , both in Ceylon and for the remainder of my life , the fact that I am mentally ...
Page 143
... fact both the G.A. and the Diwa Nilame , as he was usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. , kept the G.A.'s key , and arranged with Nugawela ...
... fact both the G.A. and the Diwa Nilame , as he was usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. , kept the G.A.'s key , and arranged with Nugawela ...
Page 168
... fact that hundreds of other men in Ceylon had been hanged for precisely similar kill- ings . All the evidence , in all countries and at all times , goes to show that capital punishment is not a deterrent of crime ; in fact , by the ...
... fact that hundreds of other men in Ceylon had been hanged for precisely similar kill- ings . All the evidence , in all countries and at all times , goes to show that capital punishment is not a deterrent of crime ; in fact , by the ...
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