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" However true it may have been, or still may be, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is a libel upon the curiosity of mankind to attribute this ignorance to indifference. "
The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science - Page 234
1848
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The American National Preacher, Volumes 27-30

Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...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 of personal...
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The Quarterly Journal Of Agriculture

William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 pages
...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 should...
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Robert Moffat - Africa, Southern - 1842 - 686 pages
...at this place a circumstance occurred which may throw some light on the habits of these people, and confirms the old adage, " that the one-half of the...the swiftest of the antelope species,* darted close past the wagon, and descended towards the extensive valley. Startled by so unusual an occurrence, one...
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Robert Moffat - Missions - 1846 - 186 pages
...at this place a circumstance occurred which may throw some light on the habits of these people, and confirms the old adage, " that the one-half of the...how the other half lives. ' It was at noonday when a fiue large hartelxiest (khama of the Bechuanas,) the swiftest of the antelope species,• darted close...
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Robert Moffat - Africa, Southern - 1850 - 450 pages
...circumstance occurred which may throw some light on the habits of these people, and confirms the 01(1 adage, “that the one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives.” It was at noon(lay when a fine large hartebeest (khama of the Bechuanas,) the swiftest of the antelope species,...
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Chambers's pocket miscellany, Volumes 10-12

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 594 pages
...to herself: ' Ah, if I had but known !' EFFI E. THERE is no saying more true, than that the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It must be acknowledged, that those who clothe themselves in silk and fine linen every day, possess, for...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 33

1853 - 528 pages
...antiquated. Thus, notwithstanding our overvaunted prosperity, the old saying is as true as ever—One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It has even been the fashion to look for poverty and its ills, and to squander much profitless sentiment...
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Moral Aspects of City Life

Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Cities and towns - 1853 - 204 pages
...the noisomeness, the stifling air, the moral debasement ; and though it may be true that " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," it will help us to think how a wide circle of men and women around us try to live — it will add, perhaps,...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 41

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1853 - 622 pages
...this desirable object : at all events, we will try. If it be true (as it undoubtedly is) that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is as certainly true that three-fourths of the world have but a very faint idea how very many of the...
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The National Preacher, Volumes 27-28

Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...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 of personal...
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