| 1883 - 252 pages
...Seminary as soon as convenient after the commencement exercises. HIDDEN OEMS. It is true enough that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives or what precious things it possesses. It is a fact that this sphere is rather profusely supplied with... | |
| Charles Clarke - 1870 - 342 pages
...consideration, in foreign circles ; whose antecedents involved Madame Robeck herself in no creditable scandals. One half of the world does not know how the other half lives, and so I may be excused for declining to penetrate further than the surface into the social status... | |
| 1873 - 828 pages
...fill ! Thy hiding-place is safe. Glad heart, keep still. BORROWING AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE. THAT one-half the world does not know how the other half lives is a trite maxim, and it may be added, that it does not care. This lack of knowledge is said to have been... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1884 - 1122 pages
...my friend, that you were passing through so terrible a conflict. But so it is. The old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives is only a faint glimmering of a great truth. There is hardly one of us who has the remotest idea of the... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1872 - 472 pages
...whether there may not be for such scenery fit actors and appropriate dramas ? It has been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ; an ignorance, by the way, which Boz has essentially helped to enlighten ; it is quite as certain... | |
| 1872 - 932 pages
...; to be washed with her flowing tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head ? It has been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It were well they did. There were more brotherhood, human and Christian brotherhood, among us if they... | |
| Holme Lee - 1873 - 322 pages
...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 Bently she had learnt nothing beyond the traditions and customs of county... | |
| Holme Lee - 1873 - 324 pages
...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... | |
| William Motherwell - 1873 - 554 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 cither forgets... | |
| Harriet Parr - 1873 - 298 pages
...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... | |
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