| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 páginas
...banks 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,... | |
| Sir Robert Murray Keith - 1849 - 508 páginas
...which poor Keith must be presented, and take leave, in the space of ten days ! It is a wise saying that one half of the world does not know how the other lives ; and while you are getting money at the Gang, you little guess what I suffer in being bound... | |
| Sir Robert Murray Keith - 1849 - 522 páginas
...of which poor Keith must be presented, and take leave, in the space of ten days! It is a wise saying that one half of the world does not know how the other lives; and while you are getting money at the Gang, you little guess what I suffer in being bound 'prentice... | |
| Robert Murray Keith - 1849 - 1070 páginas
...which poor Keith must be presented, and take leave, in the space of ten days ! It is a wise saying that one half of the world does not know how the other lives ; and while you are getting money at the Gang, you little guess what I suffer in being bound... | |
| 318 páginas
...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 knew... | |
| 1852 - 454 páginas
...hands, and 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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 594 páginas
...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,... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 páginas
...damp, the 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 páginas
...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... | |
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