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... call forth a furious outbreak among the Orange faction The Attorney General caused, on the 16 th of August, 16 72, Cornelius de Witt to be arrested; and the noble brother of John de Witt had, like ... ascend to the chair of Stadtholder Thus, then, on the 20th of August, 16 72, as we have already stated in the beginning of this chapter, the whole town was crowding towards the Buytenhof, to...

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... will have saved John and Cornelius de Witt "Farewell, and love me "Cornelius de Witt "August 20 th, 16 72. " John, with tears in his eyes, wiped off a drop of the noble blood which had soiled the ... will be weak If he is strong, he will, when he hears of what has happened to us, boast of our acquaintance; if he is weak, he will be afraid on account of his connection with us: if he is strong...

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... very natural in a military man, until his companion drew him away with him On arriving at the square of the Hoogstraet, the man with the sallow face pushed the other behind an open shutter, from ... least people say so, Monseigneur I cannot say anything about it myself, as I have no personal acquaintance with Mynheer Bowelt." "An honest man," repeated he who was addressed as Monseigneur; ......

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... the mass of moving heads like a floating island But in another instant it came to a dead stop A blacksmith had with his hammer struck down one of the horses, which fell in the traces At this moment, ... "Yes, my man, here it is." "It is most unfortunate that you did not bring me that key only one quarter of an hour sooner," said the gatekeeper, with a sigh "And why that?" asked the other "Be...

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... growing tulips had, on seeing the Boxtel tulip, exclaimed, "Not so bad, by any means!" All at once, Cornelius van Baerle, who, after all his learned pursuits, had been seized with the tulipomania, ... new story set out with bulbs and seedlings of tulips for the border, and tulips in pots; in short, with everything pertaining to the pursuits of a tulipmonomaniac! There were bundles of labels,...

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... engrossed by that great black tulip, which was looked upon to be as chimerical as the black swan of Horace or the white raven of French tradition Van Baerle was one of the tulip- growers who were ... himself, if he should venture to stand up for the defence of his tulips! But to kill a tulip was a horrible crime in the eyes of a genuine tulip- fancier; as to killing a man, it would...

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... flower for the first time in the spring of 1 675 , would undoubtedly produce the large black tulip required by the Haarlem Society On the 20th of August, 1 672 , at one o'clock, Cornelius was therefore ... All the tulip- fanciers that is to say, all the intelligent people of Europe will feel a thrill of excitement when the rumour spreads to the four quarters of the globe: The grand blac...

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... ticketed, as in a botanical garden, the "Jane," the "John de Witt," the hazel-nut, and the roasted-coffee coloured tulip; but of the black tulip, or rather the seedling bulbs within which it was still ... Hollander, and who arrested the Doctor at the very hour when the Orange party at the Hague were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh torn from the corpses of C...

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... see the ghastly spectacle At midnight, people again knocked at the gate of the jail, or rather at the barricade which served in its stead: it was Cornelius van Baerle whom they were bringing When ... whether there was any living creature about him, approached the window, and cast a sad look round the circular yard before him At the end of the yard a dark mass, tin...

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... shed much more for that marvellous black tulip which he was not to see than for the life which he was about to lose, "I have no wish left, except that the tulip should be called Rosa Barlaensis, ... the prisoner is of hybrid character, of an amphibious organisation, working with equal ardour at politics and at tulips, which proves him to belong to the class of men most dangerous to publ...

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... the scaffold: it was the executioner raising his sword Van Baerle bade farewell to the great black tulip, certain of awaking in another world full of light and glorious tints Three times he felt, ... some good in this perpetual imprisonment; Rosa will be there, and also my three bulbs of the black tulip are there." But Cornelius forgot that the Seven Provinces had seven prisons, one fo...

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... doctor was mistaken In his prison cell the most adventurous life which ever fell to the lot of any tulip- fancier was reserved for him One morning, whilst at his window inhaling the fresh air which ... looming in the distance behind a forest of chimneys, he saw flocks of pigeons coming from that quarter to perch fluttering on the pointed gables of Loewestein These pigeons, Van Baerle said to

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... fled so precipitately, that she completely forgot to return to Cornelius the three bulbs of the Black Tulip

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... my dear Rosa All the joy of my life has still to come from you." And as the lips of Van Baerle approached the grating with the same ardor as the day before, and as, moreover, the hour for retiring ... interesting as the subject was, people cannot always talk about tulips They therefore began to chat also about other things, and the tulip- fancier found out to his...

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