Homes, haunts, and works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; the Dutch genre-painters; Michael Angelo and Raffaelle. Being a series of art-rambles in Belgium, Holland and Italy (1872)
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · New York : D. Appleton and co. · leaf 165
annals possess an interestsecond to those of no other modern European state. It wouldalmost be expected in the nature of things that the marshy tractof unproductive sand which forms this country, would be left tothe quiet possession of the industrious people who had with suchunwearied assiduity… … ^ pctitlUs y^ otte/f.-^- ■ difficulties to bo overcome, and dciiianding more constant care topreserve wlu-n llicsc dinicullics had been conquered. It \vas PAUL POTTER. 149 rescued from the sea only to be reclaimed by it upon the slightestrelaxation of vigilant watchfulness; but the fear of encroach-
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