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" one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. "
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 141
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection ..., Volume 10

Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1807 - 428 pages
...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...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14

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,...
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The Friendly Visitor, Volume 22

William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 pages
...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...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 37

William Cobbett - 1820 - 894 pages
...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...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 37

William Cobbett - 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...
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The Orphan Boy, Or Test of Innocence, Etc. (Founded on Facts.).

Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 pages
...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...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1823 - 696 pages
...THE ïonïion SEPTEMBER, 1823. SEA.ROAMERS — OLD JOHNNY WOLGAït 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,...
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Essays and Sketches of Character

Richard Ayton - 1825 - 308 pages
...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,...
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Minstrelsy: ancient and modern, with an historical intr. and notes, by W ...

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...
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The Melange: A Variety of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse : Comprising ...

Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pages
...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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