| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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