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Essays, Moral and Literary - Page 271
de Vicesimus Knox - 1783
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Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical ..., Volume 1

Mr. Addison - 1795 - 608 pages
...alleviation of real mifery among the deftitute fons of indigence, in their neglefted walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other...and luxury, complains in. a moment of ennui, that fiircly no mortal is fo wretched as herfelf. Her fufferings are too great for her acute fenfibility....
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Sporting Magazine, Volume 6

1795 - 422 pages
...the whole fair on any horte day in the field. Nothing has more truth in it than the old proverb, " that one " half of the world knows not " how the other half lives." Evincible in this fociety the axiom isas immutableas truth. Here a hoilltr, who ufed to meafüre his...
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The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Collection of Essays ...

Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 pages
...alleviation of real mifery among the deftitute fona of indigence, in the neglected walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other...accommodation and luxury, complains, in a moment of dejection, that furely no mortal is fo wretched as herfelf. Her fufferings are too great for her acute...
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The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature:: A Collection of Essays ...

1806 - 360 pages
...alleviation of real mifery among the deftitute fons of indigence, in the neglected walks of rulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other...accommodation and luxury, complains, in a moment of deje£tion, that furely no mortal is fo wretched as herfelf. Her fufferings are too great for her acute...
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The British Essayists: Knox's essays

James Ferguson - 1823 - 328 pages
...alleviation of real misery among the destitute sons of indigence, in the neglected walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives is a common and just observation. A fine lady, surrounded with every means of accommodation and luxury, complains in...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum, Volume 11

1837 - 540 pages
...Sketches, inform themselves of what is enacting on the Surrey side of the water, confirming the saying, " that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives." JLe Kent's Memorials of Cambridge. No. 1.— Tilt. THIS very interesting and fertile subject for historian...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 2

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pages
...alleviation of real misery among the destitute sons of indigence, in the neglected walks of vulgar life. That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and just observation. A fine lady, surrounded with every means of accommodation and luxury, complains in...
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Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England, Volume 1

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1831 - 320 pages
...man could not live on moss or lichen.' ' There is a common saying, my little Bertha," replied he, ' that one half of the world knows not how the other half live. Now, there is a certain lichen, called Iceland-moss, which is brought to England as a medicine,...
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A pedestrian tour of thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles ..., Volume 2

Pedestres (pseud.), sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.) - 1836 - 770 pages
...was to be met with in the world until now ; and as one of the lodgers said to him — " You see, sir, that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives," — as true an observation perhaps as ever was made. The expense also was remarkable and worthy notice....
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The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines and ...

Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the Employment and Condition of Children in Mines and Manufactories - 1842 - 104 pages
...Regulations suggested 87 EMPLOYMENT IN COAL MINES, &c. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. THERE is an old adage, that " one half of the world knows not how the other half lives ;" and we much doubt whether it has ever reeeived so striking an exemplification as in the publication...
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