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A decision which brought the peace and contentment to the van der Veere Fifth Avenue home, which religious intolerance had robbed from the van der Veeres in their stone-thatched hut in far-away Normandy, a simple decision, not requiring brilliance nor a college education, nor a professional training, nor even a loving helpmate to accomplish: "Six days shall I labor not only with my brain but with my hands, and the seventh day shall I rest."
The family doctor called in a neurologist who, after examining the nervous man, spoke seriously of serious possibilities, and advised serious measures. Mr. van der Veere was now fifty-five years old, short, almost stocky in build, dark-skinned, with steel-gray hair and mustache. He was depressed in mien though always well-bred in bearing.
The support from the bishop had probably been withdrawn; that of Anna of Veere had trickled but languidly; he could not too firmly rely on Mountjoy. Under these circumstances a modest fund, some provision against a rainy day, was of the highest consequence. Such savings he brought from England, twenty pounds.
The fish cannot get off the land; the people would gladly see it gone, as they fear the great stink, for it is so large that they say it could not be cut in pieces and the blubber boiled down in half a year. ZEELAND, December 3-14, 1520. December 8. I went to Middelburg. I went next to the Veere, where lie ships from all lands; it is a very fine little town.
Indignation knew no bounds; and the revolutionary movement to which it gave rise was as sudden and complete in 1747 as in 1672. All eyes were speedily turned to the Prince of Orange as the saviour of the country. The movement began on April 25 at Veere and Middelburg in the island of Walcheren.
You seem to think I am made of adamant: or perhaps that I have nothing else to do. 'There is nothing I detest more than these sycophantic epistles. Well he might; for this is the sort of thing he wrote. You will remember that the Lady of Veere was named Anne of Borsselen.
The regent-burghers were a small patrician oligarchy, in whose hands the entire government and administration of the towns rested, and from their number were chosen the deputies, who represented the eighteen privileged cities in the Provincial Estates. The other provinces do not need such detailed notice. There was but one noble, the Marquis of Flushing and Veere.
December 9 Early on Monday we started again by ship and went by the Veere and Zierikzee and tried to get sight of the great fish, but the tide had carried him off again. ANTWERP, December 14 April 6, 1521 I have eaten alone thus often. I took portraits of Gerhard Bombelli and the daughter of Sebastian the Procurator. February 10.
The University of Paris Traditions and schools of Philosophy and Theology The College of Montaigu Erasmus's dislike of scholasticism Relations with the humanist, Robert Gaguin, 1495 How to earn a living First drafts of several of his educational works Travelling to Holland and back Batt and the Lady of Veere To England with Lord Mountjoy: 1499
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