| 1862 - 538 pagina’s
...other— through mother — money came of it, and a nice baked dinner on Sunday. It is proverbial that one half the world does not know how the other half lives. The rehearsal of a pantomime sometimes helps One-halfthe-world's ignorance. Among that motley, mouldy... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1863 - 806 pagina’s
...respectfully to request that, before they commence their rubber, they will read to the bottom of the page. One half the world does not know how the other half lives. I have ventured to repeat the saying; but I am not about to launch into a dissertation on the shifts... | |
| James Pycroft - 1865 - 296 pagina’s
...it shows we are improving, however gradually, to that state in which we may read whole •ycolumes rather to judge and pronounce, than merely to be taught...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... | |
| 1866 - 588 pagina’s
...any former time. But our great and growing general intelligence has not yet falsified the adage — ' One half the world does not know how the other half lives.' Ignorance of that kind remains almost aз dense as ever. We may all know — many of us do know —... | |
| 1877 - 1236 pagina’s
...TRAVELLING IN INDIA. ВГ BEV. DB. H. 8TANDISH. MOST of us have heard the oft-repeated saying, that " one half the world does not know how the other half lives; " but it is only after a more or less long sojourn in India that we can realize the fact, that less... | |
| 1878 - 626 pagina’s
...the upper, middle, and working men's, there is much of caste, much misunderstanding of one another. " One half the world does not know how the other half lives," and between them there is often severe judging and dislike ; especially between employers and employed,... | |
| 708 pagina’s
...half-unconscious way, she realised for the first time the enormous magnitude of London. We are told one half the world does not know how the other half lives. One half of London has never seen the district in which the other half lives. It was a matter of perfect... | |
| 1869 - 582 pagina’s
...having been sent there upon a working-day by lawful authority. De-mi et Demi. IT used to be said that one half the world does not know how the other half lives. As to the French world of fashion there is much doubt if this saying holds good any longer, and no... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 350 pagina’s
...case seems to have been disregarded. Life is now so large, and civilisation so full of enclosure, that one half the world does not know how the other half lives. We have foreign countries at our right hand and our left. Bermondsey is so little known to Mayfair... | |
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