 | Margaret Cullen - 1802 - 332 sider
...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... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1807 - 428 sider
...world . does not know how the other half lives ;" and I think I may lay it down as a maxim equally true, that one half of the world does not know how the other half dm. It has heen held by very great philofophers, that every man has two characters ;"1 fuppofe one... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1807 - 406 sider
...denomination of bowels of compajjim. But I have done, fatisfied that I- muft have eftablifhed my maxim, that " one half of the world does not know how the other half dies." I fhall Ibave thp.reft of the alphabet to thofe who may choofe, with Polonius in the play, to... | |
 | 1824 - 494 sider
...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 - 1840 - 644 sider
...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 880 sider
...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...receiving pressing requests to publish an account of, tfie ieasfng, and other modes "of disposing tit the estates called th'e Crown Lands, which, are' /... | |
 | Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 1825 - 308 sider
...; 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 sider
...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... | |
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one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 
