 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1807 - 428 pages
...does not know how the other half lives ;" and I think I may lay it down as a maxim equally true, that one half of the world does not know how the other half dm. It has heen held by very great philofophers, that every man has two characters ;"1 fuppofe one... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 pages
...291. DECEMBER, 1842. VOL. 24. THE DISPENSARY PATIENT. It is an old saying, and a correct one, "that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ;" and it is also true, that one half of the world does not know what the other half suffers. There... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 894 pages
...and the Itrdlryx has made us laugh. NeVv discoveries are making1 every day. It is very true, that " one half of the world' does not know how the other half lives." — We are daily receiving pressing requests to publish an account of the leasing, and oilier modes... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 880 pages
...A?«WZ<;iy.v'has made us laugh. New discoveries are making "every day". 1t is very true, that " ouc half of the world does not know how the other" half lives.'"— We are daily receiving pressing requests to publish an account of, tfie ieasfng, and other modes "of... | |
 | Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 pages
...suppress a smile at the scene he had just witnessed ; it making the old adage probable enough that, " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." CHAPTER XV. Accustomed as Adolphus had been to sleep on beds of down in the splendid and magnificent... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 pages
...Gordons), and in which a fine trait of their personal manners is preserved, " p. 200. — It is said the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, and it would seem from the above quotation that one half of the literary population either forgets... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 pages
...labourers, when free. KELP BARILLA — ORDERS IN COUNCIL. JL HE adage, as true as it is old, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives, is one which should be always before the eyes of our statesmen and political economists. It should be... | |
 | 1876 - 1186 pages
...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 pages
...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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one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 
