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A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: with ... - Page 26
by James Pycroft - 1850 - 294 pages
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1856 - 766 pages
...is the singular volume which I now commend to your attention. It is a somewhat trite remark, that ' one half the world does not know how the other half lives ;' and especially is this pertinent as regards the numerous class of human beings who perpetually roam the...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 75

England - 1854 - 800 pages
...place, " Prayer, and kindly intercourse with the poor, are the two great safeguards of spiritual life." One- half the world does not know how the other half lives, and one-half of the hitternesses of human life arises from our not understanding one another. Little do...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1876 - 516 pages
...Esq., Loughborough ? II. MANSFIELD. — This is the age of reporters. Everything is reported ; and " if one half the world does not know how the other half lives," it will not be from any lack of reporting. Our church life is almost as open as our political and public...
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A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: with ...

James Pycroft - Best books - 1845 - 270 pages
...reputed well informed really possess. We have all heard the remark, that one half of the world docs not know how the other half lives, and if it is not...least, the very limited number of correct replies they could at any moment sit down and write, for another's judgment, to questions which were within the...
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A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity : with ...

James Pycroft - Best books - 1845 - 122 pages
...that most, even of those reputed well informed, really possess. We have all heard the remark, that one half the world does not know how the other half...intellectual stores. How few would like to confess the liitle that they know — at least, the very limited number of correct replies they could at any moment...
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The American Mechanic and Working-man, Volume 2

James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...case, as I walked to my lodgings, I was oppressed with a recollection of the vulgar saying, that " one half the world does not know how the other half lives." How would it shock, even the most heartless, to have gathered before him, at a single glance, all the...
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A Course of English Reading,adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: With ...

James Pycroft - Best books - 1848 - 78 pages
...that most, even of those reputed well informed, really possess-. We have all heard the remark, that one half the world does not know how the other half...least, the very limited number of correct replies they could at any moment sit down and write, for another's judgment, to questions which were within the...
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The Union Magazine of Literature & Art, Volumes 2-3

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Katahdin, Mount (Me.) - 1848 - 668 pages
...noonday snn, thine own eflhlgenee, in. THE HARD WINTER. ST THE EDITOE. IT is a common raying, that "one half the world does not know how the other half lives; " hat it ia a saying which can he nnderstood only hy those who do know. To teihe occnpant of a comfortahle...
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Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes 17-18

1849 - 396 pages
...motion. — Fletcher. TWO SIDES OF A PICTURE. Two Sides of a Picture. IT is a very true saying, that " one half the world does not know how the other half lives." A conviction of the truth of this old adage was forced upon me a few evenings since, while walking...
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The Journal of Health, Volumes 1-2

1852 - 604 pages
...tor the journey. — Ayra Mestenger, March 9, 1852. TIIE ENGLISH HELL. ' IT is a common saying, that one half the world does not know how the other half lives ; and no where is that so true as in this Metropolis. No where are there such impenetrable veils, such thick...
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