| Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pągines
...contemplation of the moralist ! — what ample scope for the exercise of the benevolent ! Well may it be said that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' I trust I am not indifferent to the miseries of my fellowcreatures ; but until my attention was drawn... | |
| 1836 - 872 pągines
...the " crop lime" of the negro must be elysium compared to it. The justness of the vulgar observation, that "one half of the world does not know how the other half live," was here partly exemplified. Of the vast city of Liverpool itself, so much is known as to leave... | |
| 1834 - 804 pągines
...Newcastle-upon-Tyne.* THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S JUDGMENT ON THE UNITARIAN IMPROVED VERSION.* IT is often said that one half of the world does not know how the other lives ; and it seems very clear that one half of the world knows not at all what the other is busy... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pągines
...cheap252 THE TRADE OF ENGLAND. ness increases consumption and general employment, obtains in the end. " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives," is a maxim even more true than trite. There are traders, and to no small extent. who have neither capital... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1838 - 462 pągines
...of — it will also give us another feature connected with Greenwich Fair, and point out to us — that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives !" "An excellent proposition," replied Jem, "and I have no doubt, but that we shall meet with plenty... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1838 - 418 pągines
...to return the house, in their books, as an empty one.'" " It may be well said," replied Sprightly, " that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives !" " To his offspring, (and he had two remarkably fine daughters, who were much admired for their persons,)... | |
| Harrison Gray Otis Dwight - 1840 - 342 pągines
...by the pestilence ; while so many thousands have fallen around. It is as true as trite a saying, " that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." Misery and sorrow, dear sister, you have scarcely seen in New England, unless the sorrows of more refined... | |
| M. A. Stodart - 1840 - 260 pągines
...and holv faith. There are advantages, too, as it regards temporal things. The saying is an old one, that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' You have heard the story of the French princess, who, on being told of a dreadful famine, in which... | |
| 1841 - 644 pągines
...believe to be that of the purest philanthropy, the most effective humanity. We have all heard it said, * one half of the world does not know how the other half live?;' this author shows us how. No other has «rely. Now what can they learn in a workhouse or a... | |
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