 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1876 - 1186 pàgines
...THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS : OUGHT THEY TO BE EXTENDED TO ALL SEAPORTS ? has often been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives and dies, and, making due allowance for the errors which must always exist in assertions of so sweeping... | |
 | 1836 - 872 pàgines
...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... | |
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 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1831 - 556 pàgines
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 | Pierce Egan - 1838 - 418 pàgines
...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 of... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1838 - 462 pàgines
...— 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... | |
 | M. A. Stodart - 1840 - 260 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis Dwight - 1840 - 342 pàgines
...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... | |
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one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 
