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    his emblem books. Jacob Cats was born on 10 November 1577 in Brouwershaven as son of Adriaen Cornelisz. Cats and Leenken Jacob Jansdr. Breyde. Having lost...
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  • coach and sports administrator Jacob Cats (1577–1660), Dutch poet Jacob Cats (painter) (1741–1799), Dutch painter Jentje Cats [nl] (1793–1853), Frisian civil...
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    the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Built between 1651 and 1652 for Jacob Cats as private villa, it was renamed after him after his death. The Catshuis...
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    Jacob Cats, an excellent Dutch draughtsman, who also etched and painted, was born at Altona in 1741 as the son of a Mennonite bookseller who had to flee...
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    importance: ridiculous things, and nonetheless not without wisdom [...] — Jacob Cats, Voor-reden over de Proteus, of Minne-beelden, verandert in sinne-beelden...
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    Philippe van Lansberge (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    Middelburg. He had frequent contacts with sympathizers, like the Dutch poet Jacob Cats. Cats wrote three poems about the "very wise, famous, and honored Philippus...
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    Johan de Witt (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    acquaintances important scholars and scientists, such as Isaac Beeckman, Jacob Cats, Gerardus Vossius, and Andreas Colvius. Johan and Cornelis both attended...
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  • Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T....
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    Jacob (/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, Modern: Yaʿaqōv, Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb), later given...
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  • Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland. The ruling spirit of this school was Jacob Cats (1577–1660). In this voluminous writer the genuine Dutch habit of thought...
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