Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 474
well-to-do class being for the mostpart very refined, while the subjects drawn fromthe lowest class are often very gross. For up tothis time the refinement of social conditionsworked upward to the top; it was not to beginworking downward till the nineteenth century.Everywhere in Europe the state of… … : PORTRAIT OF \ LITTLE DUTCH GIRLGERARD TER BORCH. PAINTED BY deed, a landowner was probably more distressedat the loss of a cow than at that of the man whotended it. Holland, we have seen, had more than hershare of wars. Agriculture had been constantlydisturbed, fields laid waste, homes wiped out,…
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