Littell's Living Age, Volume 128Living Age Company Incorporated, 1876 |
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Page 155
... Dutch , so said my inform- ants , our local institutions Dutch , our sea- walls are Dutch , our canals , our sluices , the entire system of irrigation and drain- age from which the land derives its un- paralleled fertility and we our ...
... Dutch , so said my inform- ants , our local institutions Dutch , our sea- walls are Dutch , our canals , our sluices , the entire system of irrigation and drain- age from which the land derives its un- paralleled fertility and we our ...
Page 162
... Dutch industry , Dutch perseverance , and Dutch good sense , that of old turned the sandy swamps of the Batavian delta into a flower - garden , and erected the Venice of the north on the storm - swept shores of the Zuider - Zee ...
... Dutch industry , Dutch perseverance , and Dutch good sense , that of old turned the sandy swamps of the Batavian delta into a flower - garden , and erected the Venice of the north on the storm - swept shores of the Zuider - Zee ...
Page 271
... Dutch and his own left . Colonel Gordon , an officer of the Scotch brigade maintained in the Dutch army , but a warm partisan of the Stadtholder , was here of the greatest service . Being well acquainted with the lake , he at once ...
... Dutch and his own left . Colonel Gordon , an officer of the Scotch brigade maintained in the Dutch army , but a warm partisan of the Stadtholder , was here of the greatest service . Being well acquainted with the lake , he at once ...
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