| 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
...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... | |
| Lloyd's patriotic fund - 1854 - 206 páginas
...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... | |
| 1854 - 394 páginas
...animal I How many lives then ought a man and a woman to have ? It is, we fear, but too true, that the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ; but it is a no less melancholy truth that few of us know upon what we ourselves live. With the morning... | |
| 1857 - 734 páginas
...London," written by a gentleman, under the name of Old Allan Gray ; who Bays he is quite sure that the " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." In this number the Editor has given a portion of one of the prize essays, which he hopes every one... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 586 páginas
...subject, and having received freely, we freely give. The writer commences by gravely reminding us that " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." The remark may be extended over a far wider range of society than that to which at first sight it appears... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1857 - 432 páginas
...been declining ever since. GUINEA-MEN. OFTEN has it been said — and true is the saying — that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' The remark may be extended over a far wider range of society than that to which at first sight it appears... | |
| 1859 - 926 páginas
...morning, and they will have a more vivid apprehension than they have ever had before of the saying, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. Only a large measure of the same zeal which first preached can extend, within as well as beyond a nominal... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 páginas
...misfortune, when misfortune comes, as bravely as most others. t. £150 a Year. We can only realise that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives,' when we endeavour to make even a rough estimate of the weekly and yearly expenses of a class to which... | |
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