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" one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 209
1824
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 27

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pages
...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...
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The Pilgrims of the Thames: In Search of the National

Pierce Egan - 1838 - 462 pages
...— 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...
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The Pilgrims of the Thames: In Search of the National

Pierce Egan - 1838 - 418 pages
...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...
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Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Dwight: Including an Account of the Plague of 1837

Harrison Gray Otis Dwight - 1840 - 342 pages
...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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Every Day Duties: In Letters to a Young Lady

M. A. Stodart - 1840 - 260 pages
...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...
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Punch, Volume 130

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1906 - 518 pages
...chcrelure, "it is all too true. If the writer lias erred M all it is on the side of understatement. One half of the world does not know how the other half lives, or to put it in other words very few people really know how tlieir next-door neighbour lives. The strange,...
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Ladies Companion and Literary Expositor: A Monthly Magazine ..., Volumes 14-15

1841 - 644 pages
...believe to be that of the purest philanthropy, the most effective humanity. We have all heard it said, * one half of the world does not know how the other half live?;' this author shows us how. No other has «rely. Now what can they learn in a workhouse or a...
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Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of ...

William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 346 pages
...nations as distinct as the Normans and the Saxons : in our wisdom we have improved on the proverb, " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives," changing it into " One half of the world does not care how the other half lives." Ardwick knows less...
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Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of ...

William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 312 pages
...nations as distinct as the Normans and the Saxons : in our wisdom we have improved on the proverb, " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives," changing it inio '' One half of the world does not care how the other half lives " Ardwick knows less...
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The North of England Magazine, Volume 1

1842 - 608 pages
...nations as distinct as the Normans and the Saxons ; in our wisdom we have improved on the proverb " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," changing it into " one half of the world does not care how the other half lives." Ardwick knows less...
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