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See also: born at Brouwershaven in See also: Zeeland on the loth of See also: November 1577
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Having lost his See also: mother at an early age, and being adopted with his three See also: brothers by an See also: uncle, See also: Cats was sent to school at Zierikzee
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He then studied See also: law at See also: Leiden and at See also: Orleans, and, returning to
See also: Holland, he settled at the Hague, where he began to practise as an advocate
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His
See also: pleading in defence of a wretched creature accused of See also: witchcraft brought him many clients and some reputation
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He had a serious love affair about this See also: time, which was broken off on the very See also: eve of See also: marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years
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For medical advice and change of air Cats went to See also: England, where he consulted the highest authorities in vain
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He returned to Zeeland to die, but was cured mysteriously by a strolling See also: quack
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He married in 1602 a 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
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His best See also: works are: Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht (1618); Spiegel See also: van den ouden en nieuwen Tijt (1632); Houwelijck
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(1625); Selfstrijt (1620); Ouderdom, Buitem See also: levee
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. . en Hofgedachten op Sorgvliet (1664); and Gedachten op slapelooze nachten (1661)
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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
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He was made See also: pensionary (stipendiary magistrate) of See also: Middelburg; and two years afterwards of See also: Dort
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In 1627 Cats came to England on a See also: mission to See also: Charles I., who made him a knight
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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
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In the seclusion of his See also: villa of Sorgvliet (Fly-from-Care), near the Hague, he lived from this time till his See also: death, occupied in the composition of his autobiography (Eighty-two Years of My See also: Life, first printed at Leiden in 1734) and of his poems
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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
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He is still spoken of as " See also: Father Cats " by his countrymen
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Cats was contemporary with 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
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He was, however, intimate with Constantin Huygens, whose See also: political opinions were more nearly in agreement with his own
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For an estimate of his poetry see DUTCH LITERATURE
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Hardly known outside of Holland, among his own See also: people for nearly two centuries he enjoyed an enormous popularity
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His diffuseness and the antiquated 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
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A statue to him was erected at Brouwershaven in 1829 . See See also: 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
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Witsen Gejisbek, Het Leven en de Verdienstenwan Jacob Cats (1829)
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Sou they has a very complimentary reference to Cats in his " See also: Epistle to 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
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(1) Precious cat's-eye, See also: oriental cat's-eye or See also: chrysoberyl cat's-eye
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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
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One of the grandest known specimens was in the Hope collection of precious stones, exhibited for many years at the See also: Victoria and See also: Albert Museum
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(2) See also: Quartz cat's-eye
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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
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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
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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
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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
See also: mineral, with silky fibres, found in Griqualand 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 iron, and results from the alteration of crocidolite (q.v.)
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It is often distinguished as " See also: tiger's-eye " (or more commonly " tiger-eye "), whilst a blue variety, less altered, is known as " hawk's-eye." By the See also: action of hydrochloric acid the 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
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In some asteriated corundum (see See also: ASTERIA) the See also: star is imperfect and may be reduced to a luminous 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
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