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See also:CATS, See also:JACOB (1577-1660) , Dutch poet and humorist, was See also:born at Brouwershaven in See also:Zeeland on the loth of See also:November 1577. Having lost his See also:mother at an See also:early See also:age, and being adopted with his three See also:brothers by an See also:uncle, Cats was sent to school at Zierikzee. He then studied See also:law at See also:Leiden and at See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, and, returning to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, he settled at the See also:Hague, where he began to practise as an See also:advocate. His See also:pleading in See also:defence of a wretched creature accused of See also:witchcraft brought him many clients and some reputation. He had a serious love affair about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, which was broken off on the very See also:eve of See also:marriage by his catching a tertian See also:fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years. For medical See also:advice and See also:change of See also:air Cats went to See also:England, where he consulted the highest authorities in vain. He returned to Zeeland to See also:die, but was cured mysteriously by a strolling See also:quack. He married in 1602 a See also:lady of some See also:property, Elisabeth von Valkenburg, and thenceforward lived at Grypskerke in Zeeland, where he devoted himself to farming and See also:poetry. His best See also:works are: Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht (1618); Spiegel See also:van den ouden en nieuwen Tijt (1632); Houwelijck . . . (1625); Selfstrijt (1620); Ouderdom, Buitem See also:levee . . . en Hofgedachten op Sorgvliet (1664); and Gedachten op slapelooze nachten (1661). In 1621, on the expiration of the twelve years' truce with See also:Spain, the breaking of the dykes drove him from his See also:farm. He was made See also:pensionary (stipendiary See also:magistrate) of See also:Middelburg; and two years afterwards of See also:Dort. In 1627 Cats came to England on a See also:mission to See also:Charles I., who made him a See also:knight. In 1636 he was made See also:grand pensionary of Holland, and in 1648 keeper of the See also:great See also:seal; in 1651 he resigned his offices, but in 1657 he was sent a second time to England on what proved to be an unsuccessful mission to See also:Cromwell. In the seclusion of his See also:villa of Sorgvliet (See also:Fly-from-Care), near the Hague, he lived from this time till his See also:death, occupied in the See also:composition of his autobiography (Eighty-two Years of My See also:Life, first printed at Leiden in 1734) and of his poems. He died on the 12th of See also:September 166o, and was buried by torchlight, and with great ceremony, in the Klooster-Kerk at the Hague. He is still spoken of as " See also:Father Cats " by his countrymen.
Cats was contemporary with See also:Hooft and See also:Vondel and other distinguished Dutch writers in the See also:golden age of Dutch literature, but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions separated him from the liberal school of See also:Amsterdam poets. He was, however, intimate with Constantin See also:Huygens, whose See also:political opinions were more nearly in agreement with his own. For an estimate of his poetry see DUTCH LITERATURE. Hardly known outside of Holland, among his own See also:people for nearly two centuries he enjoyed an enormous popularity. His diffuseness and the antiquated See also:character of his See also:matter and diction, have, however, come to be regarded as difficulties in the way of study, and he is more renowned than read. A statue to him was erected at Brouwershaven in 1829.
See Jacob Cats, See also:Complete Works (1790-1800, 19 vols.), later See also:editions by van Vloten (See also:Zwolle, 1858-1866; and at See also:Schiedam, 1869-187o) ; Pigott, Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, &c., from Jacob Cats (186o) ; and P. C. Witsen Gejisbek, Het See also:Leven en de Verdienstenwan Jacob Cats (1829). See also:Sou they has a very complimentary reference to Cats in his " See also:Epistle to See also:Allan See also:Cunningham.'
See also:CAT'S-See also:EYE, a name given to several distinct minerals, their See also:common characteristic being that when cut with a See also:convex See also:surface they display a luminous See also:band, like that seen by reflection in the eye of a cat. (1) See also:Precious cat's-eye, See also:oriental cat's-eye or See also:chrysoberyl cat's-eye. This, the rarest of all, is a chatoyant variety of chrysoberyl (q.v.), showing in the finest stones a very sharply defined See also:line of See also:light. One of the grandest known specimens was in the See also:Hope collection of precious stones, exhibited for many years at the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum. (2) See also:Quartz cat's-eye. This537
is the common See also:form of cat's-eye, in which the effect is due to the inclusion of parallel See also:fibres of See also:asbestos. Like the chrysoberyl, it is obtained chiefly from See also:Ceylon, but though coming from the See also:East it is often called "occidental cat's-eye "—a See also:term intended simply to distinguish it from the finer or "oriental" See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone. It is readily distinguished by its inferior See also:density, its specific gravity being only 2.65, whilst that of oriental cat's-eye is as high as 3'7. A greenish fibrous quartz, cut as cat's-eye, occurs at See also:Hof and some other localities in, See also:Bavaria. (3) See also:Crocidolite cat's-eye, a beautiful golden See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:mineral, with silky fibres, found in Griqualand See also:West, and much used in See also:recent years as an ornamental stone, sometimes under the name of " See also:South See also:African cat's-eye." It consists of fibrous quartz, coloured with See also:oxide of See also:iron, and results from the alteration of crocidolite (q.v.). It is often distinguished as " See also:tiger's-eye " (or more commonly " tiger-eye "), whilst a See also:blue variety, less altered, is known as " See also:hawk's-eye." By the See also:action of hydrochloric See also:acid the See also:colour of tiger's-eye may to a large extent be removed, and a greyish cat's-eye obtained. (4) See also:Corundum cat's-eye. In some asteriated corundum (see See also:ASTERIA) the See also:star is imperfect and may be reduced to a luminous See also:zone, producing an indistinct cat's-eye effect. According to the colour of the corundum the stone is known as See also:sapphire cat's-eye, See also:ruby cat's-eye, See also:topaz cat's-eye, &c. (F. W.
End of Article: CATS, JACOB (1577-1660)
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