 | Francis George Heath - Agricultural laborers - 1872 - 108 pages
...Old Plough." The Good Old Plough. IT has been truly said, and the saying is a very common one, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives. In the huge metropolis of England, with its three millions of living souls, there sxists a vast amount... | |
 | Seven years - 1874 - 284 pages
...had been the greatest joy, had also been the greatest sorrow of his life. It is said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It goes further than this, I think. Members of the same family, living in the same household, have no... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - Labor laws and legislation - 1876 - 104 pages
...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 poor,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1897 - 546 pages
...X.— RICH AND POOR. Rich and Poor. By Mrs. BERNARD BOSANQUET. (London, 1896.) IF the genteeler half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is not for want of books and printed information. There is no such place as ' Outcast London,' though... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - Labor laws and legislation - 1876 - 116 pages
...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 poor,... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 772 pages
...sherry.' • SEASO-ING SHERRY CASKS AT SSXOR MISA's. 544 CLUB CAMEOS. üofirmu. IT has been well said that the onehalf 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.... | |
 | 1879 - 594 pages
...and by the parchase of kites and wheel-barrows and fishing-rods, and remembered the old proverb, ' The one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' ' Have you any book-marks in your store ? ' I said. ' If you have, I would like one.' ' Yes, mem,'... | |
 | Education - 1928 - 692 pages
...their children. The saying is literally true right here within the confines of the United States that, "One-half of the world does not know how the other half lives." A textbook in many cases is largely a prop for the teacher who cannot see the most vital lessons in... | |
 | James Redpath - Ireland - 1881 - 148 pages
...be a quite common belief in our beloved land that St. IJridget left no successor of her own name. " One-half of the world does not know how the other half lives." This 'famous utterance is the dim shadow of a. finger-post that shows how far away yet is the good... | |
 | English periodicals - 1883 - 876 pages
...protection. Taken generally, the locality affords a practical illustration of the saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It lies well inland in that half world situated on Poverty's side of the social gulf, and the supposed... | |
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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. 
