| Holme Lee - 1873 - 324 pàgines
...nurse to my mother, and her cottage to my home." Katherine said no more — she recollected the adage: "One half of the world does not know how the other half lives." In the sheltered haven of Bendy she had learnt nothing beyond the traditions and customs of county... | |
| Harriet Parr - 1873 - 298 pàgines
...to my mother, and her cottage to my home." Katherine said no more — she recollected the adage : " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives." In the sheltered haven of Bently she had learnt nothing beyond the traditions and customs of county... | |
| Seven years - 1874 - 284 pàgines
...her who, as she had been the greatest joy, had also been the greatest sorrow of his life. It is said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It goes further than this, I think. Members of the same family, living in the same household, have... | |
| Franz Ahn - 1876 - 192 pàgines
...twice as large as North America. No observation is more common and, at the same time, more trne than that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. The desert [of] Sahara is eqnal in size to two thirds of Enrope. From 5 thirds take 3 halves. We find... | |
| Franz Ahn - 1876 - 194 pàgines
...twice as large as North America. No observation is more common and, at the same time, more true than that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. The desert [of] Sahara is equal in size to two thirds of Europe. From 5 thirds take 3 halves. We find... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1897 - 546 pàgines
...ART. X.— RICH AND POOR. Rich and Poor. By Mrs. BERNARD BOSANQUET. (London, 1896.) IF the genteeler half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is not for want of books and printed information. There is no such place as ' Outcast London,' though... | |
| Frederick Edward Maning - 1876 - 458 pàgines
...advice. |N the afternoon I went home musing on what I had heard and seen. " Surely," thought I, "if one half of the world does not know how the other half live, neither do they know how they die." Some days after this a deputation arrived to deliver up my... | |
| 1877 - 588 pàgines
...it. How true it is, notwithstanding all that has been told us of that terrible East End of London, that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ' ! One, however, of the most noticeable papers in the number before us, is that entitled ' Waiting... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Beck - 1878 - 280 pàgines
...hundred pounds. (This is the value of the fishing of one ship only, not of the whole fleet.) If it be true that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives,' we feel sure that not one person in ten thousand knows anything of the lives of those who man these smacks.... | |
| Charles Thomas Kingzett - 1878 - 556 pàgines
...useless; they mislead from their inaccuracy; they injure men by the prejudice they exhibit. It is quite true that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. There are people who talk of the republic of science as others once talked of the republic of letters.... | |
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