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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ermis. In the centre of the square is a mod- DELFT AND DELFT WARE. 141 ern statue to Grotius, reminding usthat the theologian, jurist and philoso-pher was born here. In its long andeventful history, Delft has been asso-ciated with many illustrious lives, butnone, perhaps, should it honor morethan that of Hugo de Groot. At nineyears of age he wrote verses in Latin,and at eleven he indited odes in an-cient Greek. In the same year he en-tered the University of Leyden, atfifteen he accompanied Olden Barne-veld to Paris, and at sixteen he was a philosophers plucky little wife man-aged to stuff him into a chest sup-posed to be filled with old theologicaltexts, and he escaped from the fortressand made his way to Paris. When hedied he was buried in the NieuweKerk, in Delft, almost besides PrinceMaurice, his persecutor. Hugo deGroot was not only great—he wasgreat and good; his nature was loftyand noble, his learning more thanbookish, and his sympathies for hu-manity flowed to every clime. No
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A DECORATING ROOM. Doctor of Laws, practising before theSupreme Court of Holland. Hithertothe star of Grotius had been contin-ually rising; but theology came uponthe scene to change his fortune. Hebecame a victim of the controversybetween the Arminians and the Synodof Dort; and when Barneveld was putto death, Grotius was sentenced toimprisonment for life in LoevesteinCastle. Prince Maurice, the son ofWilliam the Silent, was largely instru-mental in securing Grotiuss convic-tion, and had him confined behindthirteen ponderous locks; but the better witness of this should be neededthan his defence of the North Ameri-can Indian, whom he describes as adescendant of the Northmen, the dis-coverers of America. The sky-scraping Nieuwe Kerk, orNew Church, built in the thirteenthand fourteenth centuries, and severaltimes partly destroyed by fire, may beregarded as the finest church in Delft,though architecturally as much of amonstrosity perhaps as the OudeKerk, its predecessor. Two features,howev

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