 | Holme Lee - 1865 - 274 pàgines
...wrote it ? There is a wondering simplicity in it — a pathetic confession from first to last that his half of the world does not know how the other half lives. He offends us by no grotesque foreshortening of the figures, melts us by no sentimental exaggeration... | |
 | Richard Henry Smith - 1866 - 170 pàgines
...possibilities of pleasure in a pursuit that escape the notice of the most attentive observer. It is said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ; there are well-authenticated instances of persons living for a long while without, or with a very... | |
 | James Payn - 1866 - 340 pàgines
...to hurry Time's footsteps towards the "discovery." CHAPTER XL UP EARLY. IT has been justly observed that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. The statement is a very safe one, and might have been made a great deal more comprehensive by the philosopher... | |
 | Henry Augustus Rawes - 1866 - 360 pàgines
...shadow are made most like Him. These are they in whom the truest compassion is to be found. It is said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives: and certainly one half of the world does not dream how the other half suffers. The very struggle for... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1867 - 414 pàgines
...to feed them. Take this example as a case in point— one of the many which illustrate the saying, that one half of the world does not know how the other half live; and which, often meeting the City Missionary, make his duties in some respects more trying than... | |
 | 1868 - 248 pàgines
...is not known to some person or other, but I have been surprised to find the proverb true even here that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' I have found but one or two persons who have been called to journey over the whole, both west and east,... | |
 | 1868 - 396 pàgines
.... Yet God hath given me more; , And I have food, while others starve, Or teg from door to door." " One half of the world does not know how the other half live ; " or, it may be added, how they sometimes die. Last winter there was in London a family of the... | |
 | 1869 - 550 pàgines
...history of his neighbors, and of the manner in which their minds had got attuned. It is a common proverb, that one half of the world does not know, how the other half lives. Nor often does either half of the world credit the other half for sensibility. What is directly under... | |
 | 1869 - 562 pàgines
...history of his neighbors, and of the manner in which their minds had got attuned. It is a common proverb, that one half of the world does not know, how the other half lives. Nor often does either half of the world credit the other half for sensibility. What is directly under... | |
 | 1883 - 252 pàgines
...the Seminary as soon as convenient after the commencement exercises. HIDDEN OEMS. It is true enough that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives or what precious things it possesses. It is a fact that this sphere is rather profusely supplied with... | |
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one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 
