| William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 páginas
...supported as labourers, when free. KELP BARILLA — ORDERS IN COUNCIL. JL HE adage, as true as it is old, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives, is one which should be always before the eyes of our statesmen and political economists. It... | |
| 1853 - 1142 páginas
...visitor of the Society for the Relief of the Poor, can tell you of such cases not a few. How true is it that " one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives," nor the superior mercies of their own lot ! Hence, to ourselves as much as to them, the value... | |
| Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 404 páginas
...Female Strangers in general. ADDRESS TO THE FRIENDS OP HUMANITY. It is as true, as tragical a saying, " That one-half of the world does not know how the other half suffers." We need not look across the Atlantic ocean to behold innumerable objects of wretchedness... | |
| 1853 - 604 páginas
...visitor of the Society for the Relief of the Poor, can tell you of such cases not a few. How true is it that " one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives," nor the superior mercies of their own lot ! Hence, to ourselves as much as to them, the value... | |
| Massachusetts - 1876 - 388 páginas
...of human beings are huddled together, as to be incapacitated for further work. It is doubtless true, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives. But after listening to and reading some of the accounts of these voluntary visitors among the... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 610 páginas
...and the exercise of manly independence, in matters of religion and eeclesiasticism. It has been said, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives. What is true of temporal affairs is equally true in spiritual relations ; and, moreover, it... | |
| Edward Spooner - 1864 - 266 páginas
...naturally be liable to an annual visit of typhus fever, ague, or cholera. If it be generally true " that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives," this fact doubly applies to London ; and I would, from personal acquaintance with my subject,... | |
| New York County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors - 1864 - 970 páginas
...to keep one in ignorance of his neighbor's concerns, and where there is notorious proof of the adage that " one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives," such a result cannot be expected. In New York City, where every man is in active business pursuits,... | |
| James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 páginas
...woes are worked up into newspaper articles ; and they live, as it were, in houses of glass. It is true lives ; but it is not true in the sense in which it is generally affirmed. Who would have thought it... | |
| 1869 - 654 páginas
...which was at Jerusalem." AMONG THE SECULARISTS OF THE METROPOLIS.—I. THERE is a saying to the effect that " one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives." The principle involved in this I take to be, that one-half the world is very ill-informed respecting... | |
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