| Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore) - 1872 - 312 páginas
...half may prey upon them, and despoil them of the fruits of their labor. It is a common saying, that one half the world does not know how the other half lives ; but it is a problem easily solved. They live upon the said other half, as do the squirrels on the... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - 1873 - 312 páginas
...discretion. Even Goldsmith and Keightley give only an outline; but outline is a comparative term : they give such an outline as deserves to be considered very...least, the very limited number of correct replies they could at any moment sit down and write, for another's judgment, to questions which were within the... | |
| St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1873 - 358 páginas
...latch, and grope your way down into the dark cellars, you would then see the force of the saying, " One half the world does not know how the other half lives." The first thoughts on looking down the long monotonous streets of a poor London parish, with the courts... | |
| Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 páginas
...If they sud loss all t' men! Greenhowhill, near Pateley Bridge. THOMAS BUOKAH. [The proverb that " one half the world does not know how the other half lives," is forcibly illustrated in the life of Thomas B!ackah, a working miner of Nidderdale. Born at Hardcastle,... | |
| THOMAS W. KNOX - 1874 - 970 páginas
...disseminators of intelligence, there may be those who doubt the correctness of the adage which says, " One half the world does not know how the other half lives." Human nature is inquisitive. We are constantly seeking information regarding the affairs of others,... | |
| George Christopher Davies - 1876 - 224 páginas
...pounds in weight, and my big pike has yet to be caught. ON SOME ODD WAYS OF FISHING. THE maxim that one half the world does not know how the other half lives may, with but slight variation, be applied to the world of sportsmen. The "sportsman " is not of any... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1876 - 636 páginas
...rum old card ! " RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN INDIA. MOST of us have heard the oft-repeated saying, that " one half the world does not know how the other half lives;" butitisonly after a moreor less long sojourn in India that we can realise the fact, that less than... | |
| 1877 - 748 páginas
...towns there is a certain section of the population to which the old saying applies — namely, that one half the world does not know how the other half lives — a saying, by-the-way, that touches a great many more people than the world suspects. In these days,... | |
| 1878 - 924 páginas
...this world, and as regards the life that is now, the needy are not always forgotten. True it is that one half the world does not know how the other half lives; that the great mass of those to whom the lines have fallen in pleasant places here below, take no heed... | |
| 1877 - 996 páginas
...this world, and as regards the life that is now, the needy are not always forgotten. True it is that one half the world does not know how the other half lives; that the great mass of those to whom the lines have fallen in pleasant places here below, take no heed... | |
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