The Journey, Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years, 1939-1969, Հատոր 5 |
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It was mainly due to the welcome and the help which I got from every Government officer from the Governor down to the eighty - three - yearold Aron Singho , who had been my peon in the Hambantota kachcheri fifty years ago .
It was mainly due to the welcome and the help which I got from every Government officer from the Governor down to the eighty - three - yearold Aron Singho , who had been my peon in the Hambantota kachcheri fifty years ago .
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Today the government , the administration , the public services are Sinhalese and Tamil from the highest to lowest . In other words the people of Ceylon today are governing themselves , instead of being ruled by young men ( and old men ) ...
Today the government , the administration , the public services are Sinhalese and Tamil from the highest to lowest . In other words the people of Ceylon today are governing themselves , instead of being ruled by young men ( and old men ) ...
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He had committed two entirely different offences , one as the owner of the buffalo and one as village headman , and I punished him for the one as Police Magistrate and for the other as Assistant Government Agent .
He had committed two entirely different offences , one as the owner of the buffalo and one as village headman , and I punished him for the one as Police Magistrate and for the other as Assistant Government Agent .
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Հաճախորդի կարծիքը - rowmyboat - LibraryThingAh, the somewhat less famous husband of Virginia! I've read volumes 1 and 5 of his autobiography, and loved them. Leonard Woolf was an extremely intelligent man and an excellent writer. His prose has ... Read full review
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