| Club Cameos - 1879 - 410 頁
...should not care to be present at those interviews. BOHEMIA. BOHEMIA. IT has been well said that the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. We each of us move in our own sphere, follow its habits, accept its teaching, and adopt its customs.... | |
| Francis George Heath - 1880 - 464 頁
...sentimental,' but was aroused by actual acquaintance with its subject and object. It is a trite saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives : but it was especially true of the poor agricultural labourer before the date of the movement which... | |
| H. A. Forde - 1895 - 566 頁
...outside of things ; shall we look further ? Better not, perhaps; the sight might only distress us. " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives " is a saying eminently true of this great town. Is it well to tear away the veil, then, to shock the ears,... | |
| H A. Forde - 1881 - 572 頁
...outside of things ; shall we look further ? Better not, perhaps; the sight might only distress us. " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives " is a saying eminently true of this great town. Is it well to tear away the veil, then, to shock the ears,... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 頁
...sympathies of the reader, for it serves to illustrate very plainly the truth of the familiar saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES, by Miss Anna Catharine Greene, from the press of Messrs. GP Putnam's Sons, New... | |
| Illinois - 1881 - 1142 頁
...solicitude by enlightened persons seeking the amelioration of their condition. We have passed the time when "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," and have come upon a time when the daily intimate life, not only of the insane, but of paupers and... | |
| 1922 - 914 頁
...call a man who runs an automobile?" "It depends on how near he comes to hitting me." — Houston Post. One half of the world does not know how the other half brews. — Indianapolis News. "Trotter seems to be kept pretty busy by that second-hand car he bought... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1882 - 494 頁
...whether there may not be for such scenery fit actors and appropriate dramas 1 It has been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ; an ignorance, by the way, which Boz has essentially helped to enlighten ; it is quite as certain... | |
| Church extension assoc - 400 頁
...week. Is it possible? we hear some of our readers say. ' Possible,' and, alas ! ' true.' Certainly one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. But how does she manage? In this way. She receives a weekly allowance of ^ cwt. of coals, a quartern... | |
| Walter Hamilton - 1882 - 146 頁
...whose very existence only a vague and uncertain idea previously had been formed. How true it is that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ! Suppose, then, as it is a matter of curious philosophical interest, that we take a few steps back... | |
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