 | Margaret Cullen - English fiction - 1802 - 332 pages
...that a young man like him, could form an adequate conception of them. It is a vulgar and trite remark, that one half of the world does not know how the other lives; but the truth of it I have experienced in a manner, of which, till lately, I had no idea. Although... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...DECEMBER 15, 1823. (London Mag.) t-SEA-ROAMERS— OLD JOHNNY WOLGAB. List ye landsmen all to me. HPHAT "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,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1840 - 644 pages
...VISITOR. No. 291. DECEMBER, 1842. VOL. 24. THE DISPENSARY PATIENT. It is an old saying, and a correct one, "that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ;" and it is also true, that one half of the world does not know what the other half suffers. There is daily... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1820 - 894 pages
...Old Hags and the Itrdlryx has made us laugh. NeVv discoveries are making1 every day. It is very true, that " one half of the world' does not know how the other half lives." — We are daily receiving pressing requests to publish an account of the leasing, and oilier modes... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1820 - 880 pages
...A?«WZ<;iy.v'has made us laugh. New discoveries are making "every day". 1t is very true, that " ouc half of the world does not know how the other" half lives.'"— We are daily receiving pressing requests to publish an account of, tfie ieasfng, and other modes "of... | |
 | Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 pages
...could not suppress a smile at the scene he had just witnessed ; it making the old adage probable enough that, " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." CHAPTER XV. Accustomed as Adolphus had been to sleep on beds of down in the splendid and magnificent... | |
 | 1823 - 696 pages
...blackballed. THE ïonïion SEPTEMBER, 1823. SEA.ROAMERS — OLD JOHNNY WOLGAït List ye landsmen all to me. ich occurs in aqueous solution of cyanogen. Ammonia. — is a very ancient truth, I fancy, and, in spite of the advances of knowledge, it is perfectly applicable,... | |
 | Richard Ayton - English essays - 1825 - 308 pages
...; the new lord is an experiment. SEA-ROAMERS.— 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,... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 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 either forgets or is... | |
 | Egerton Smith - English literature - 1831 - 656 pages
...contemplation of the moralist ! — what ample scope for the exercise of the benevolent ! Well may it be said that ' one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' I trust I am not indifferent to the miseries of my fellowcreatures ; but until my attention was drawn... | |
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one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 
