 | Mr. Addison - 1795 - 608 pàgines
...alleviation of real mifery among the deftitute fons of indigence, in their neglefted walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other...and luxury, complains in. a moment of ennui, that fiircly no mortal is fo wretched as herfelf. Her fufferings are too great for her acute fenfibility.... | |
 | 1795 - 422 pàgines
...the whole fair on any horte day in the field. Nothing has more truth in it than the old proverb, " that one " half of the world knows not " how the other half lives." Evincible in this fociety the axiom isas immutableas truth. Here a hoilltr, who ufed to meafüre his... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 pàgines
...alleviation of real mifery among the deftitute fona of indigence, in the neglected walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other...accommodation and luxury, complains, in a moment of dejection, that furely no mortal is fo wretched as herfelf. Her fufferings are too great for her acute... | |
 | 1806 - 360 pàgines
...alleviation of real mifery among the deftitute fons of indigence, in the neglected walks of rulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other...accommodation and luxury, complains, in a moment of deje£tion, that furely no mortal is fo wretched as herfelf. Her fufferings are too great for her acute... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 328 pàgines
...alleviation of real misery among the destitute sons of indigence, in the neglected walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives is a common and just observation. A fine lady, surrounded with every means of accommodation and luxury, complains in... | |
 | 1837 - 540 pàgines
...Sketches, inform themselves of what is enacting on the Surrey side of the water, confirming the saying, " that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives." JLe Kent's Memorials of Cambridge. No. 1.— Tilt. THIS very interesting and fertile subject for historian... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pàgines
...alleviation of real misery among the destitute sons of indigence, in the neglected walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and just observation. A fine lady, surrounded with every means of accommodation and luxury, complains in... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1831 - 320 pàgines
...man could not live on moss or lichen.' ' There is a common saying, my little Bertha," replied he, ' that one half of the world knows not how the other half live. Now, there is a certain lichen, called Iceland-moss, which is brought to England as a medicine,... | |
 | Pedestres (pseud.), sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.) - 1836 - 770 pàgines
...was to be met with in the world until now ; and as one of the lodgers said to him — " You see, sir, that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives," — as true an observation perhaps as ever was made. The expense also was remarkable and worthy notice.... | |
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That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation. 
