| 1850 - 430 pàgines
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| 834 pàgines
...sick, think of and pray for those poor children. It has been often said, and it is most true, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. THE OUTSIDE THE EIGHT SIDE. " BOYS, which is the right side of a public-house for you ? " asked a gentleman... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pàgines
...of the Cairn. — M'Diarmid. 8EA-ROAMKRS— OLD JOHNNY WOLGAR. " List ye landsmen all to me. " THAT "one half of the world does not know how the Other half lives, " is a very ancient truth, I fancy, and, in spite of the advances of knowledge, it is perfectly applicable,... | |
| 318 pàgines
...Encouraged, sanctioned, chieflyforthat end." THE CONDITION OF THE POOR. IT has with truth been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. We feel confident that if those who are called the higher and middle classes of this country really... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 594 pàgines
...whispered to herself: ' Ah, if I had but known !' EFFI E. THERE is no saying more true, than that the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It must be acknowledged, that those who clothe themselves in silk and fine linen every day, possess,... | |
| 1852 - 466 pàgines
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| 1852 - 454 pàgines
...we need not dwell upon its contents. It shows us how far from the full truth was the proverb that " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." Here, however, are the real revelations of the mysteries of London, and if the proverb retain its truthfulness... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 pàgines
...rottenness, the noisomeness, the stifling air, the moral debasement ; and though it may be true that " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," it will help us to think how a wide circle of men and women around us try to live — it will add,... | |
| 1853 - 528 pàgines
...antiquated. Thus, notwithstanding our overvaunted prosperity, the old saying is as true as ever—One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It has even been the fashion to look for poverty and its ills, and to squander much profitless sentiment... | |
| Lloyd's patriotic fund - 1854 - 206 pàgines
...one knows Dmitri, so we need not enlarge upon his personal appearance. It has often been said that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." This is true enough. And if they did know, the wonder in Stamboul would be, not that they lived, but... | |
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