Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 468
of the Dutch in building-up an empire—for such itonce was, and such it may be again—out of the most unpromising—one might, in fact, saythe most hopeless —materials. And as they have made themselves a sea-coast—strong to resistthe most threatening inroads of the ocean—first Avith stones, laboriously… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 329 tures parsimony in denying them rivers; as they have turned thousands of acres of mwassand quicksand into fertile and wholesome meadow-land; so with little enough, as might havebeen thought, to go upon, they have put themselves at the head of the world in many of the
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