...Potter (1824), the source for Melville's novel thirty years later, the narrator remarks 'That one half the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and just observation' (Hayford et al. 1982: 361). It was indeed proverbial by then, as we can see from...

...eradicate the malarial mosquito, which has been shown to be one of the greatest enemies of mankind. "One half of the world knows not how the other half lives." This hoary axiom might very properly be paraphrased into "One half of the world knows not how much...

...Encyclopaedia or Universal D1ct1onary of Sciences, Arts, Literature . . . (London: Curtis, 1829). Low-Life, or One Half of the World Knows Not How the Other Half Lives (London: John Lever, 1764). LY'ONELL, L'Art de releversa robe (Paris, 1862). MCCuLLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY,...

...el no tener is sometimes translated "have-much and have-little." A parallel aphorism is Rabelais's "one half of the world knows not how the other half lives." The phrase has always filled a need. Lord Bryce used it in The American Commonwealth: "In the hostility...

...costermonger, who support the spiritbazaars, for the moral legislator to compete with. That one-half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and just observation : it is not, however, necessary that it should be known : for all useful purposes...

...give the cold shoulder to those who are penniless indeed — merely endorsing the truth of the saying that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives ; for there are thousands in this great wilderness of London who daily dine with Duke Humphrey. Hindoo...

...galley-slaves of the old heathen masters of ancient days. " LOTS— SE ^\r»« llctu a/ ne л»Ы« less true that " one half of the world knows not how the other half lives." A. new era of human politics dawned under the influence of that young Christian man who lifted his...

...the land, more piteous for the sufferer, but more piteous than all for civilization. How true is it that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives 1 Oh for the day, I thought, when the poor shall ask succour and be relieved ! Oh for the day when...

...England are industrial communities are coming to be understood. It is ceasing to be as true as it was that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives. The educated class is taking an immense interest in the class that is not educated. Young men and young...

...«weetest divinities of the year ; for their thrones are upon avalanches, and their tread upon graves. ' One half of the world knows not how the other half lives,'' — or dies. People in general, who have not visited the regions of lofty mountains (in common with...