| Ellen Pickering - 1844 - 136 páginas
...I meet. I have no patience with those stupid people, who contenting themselves with the saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, never enquire into the concerns of their neighbours. 1 have an enquiring mind, and learn all I can.... | |
| London missionary society - 1873 - 766 páginas
...the Sakalava as Amboalambo. THE VILLAGE ON POLES. By Key. EOBEUT MOITAT, DD T has been said that the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.- The saying is but too true, whether it refers to barbarous or civilised countries. Doubtless many in... | |
| 1862 - 802 páginas
...we re-entered the Methodist parsonage of Upper Ballarat, we recounted the old saw of England, that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. " Thursday, Dee. 20.— Left early in the morning, by ooaeh, for Geelong, where we were expected at... | |
| 412 páginas
...doubled ; and their influence over others and their power for usefulness would be unspeakably augmented." One half of the world does not know how the other half lives, and it has often struck us that loiterers in bed would be surprised were they to see the revelations... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 páginas
...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...advances of knowledge, it is perfectly applicable, I helieve, in the present era of mankind. Every man has his own world, or a little plot cut out of the... | |
| 432 páginas
...the Cairn. — M'Diarmid. SEA-ROAMEUS— 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, siml, in spite of the advances of knowledge, it is perfectly applicable, I believe, in the present... | |
| 834 páginas
...sick, think of and pray for those poor children. It has been often said, and it is most true, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. THE OUTSIDE THE EIGHT SIDE. " BOYS, which is the right side of a public-house for you ? " asked a gentleman... | |
| 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... | |
| 1852 - 454 páginas
...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... | |
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