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Title: Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Michel, Emile, 1828-1909 Simmonds, Florence Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
Subjects: Rembrandt Hermanszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. 163 (B.269). MANNERS 89 riotous movement. Those who have never witnessed one of the Amsterdam Kermesses, recently abolished, can form no idea of the frenzy that suddenly transformed the sober populace, their wild yells, their frantic sarabands, into which inoffensive spectators were whirled relentlessly, if they happened to cross the path
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THE RAISING OF JAIRUS' S DAUGHTER. (Pen Drawing, Seymour-Haden Collection.) of the excited crowd. The habitués of the theatres comported themselves in much the same fashion. Decent folks were scared away by the character of the audience, and its behaviour, especially when the piece happened to be one of Brederoos farces. A motley crew of men, women and children took possession of the 9o REMBRANDT pit, where they made assignations, drank, smoked, shouted, and very often exchanged any projectiles that lay ready to hand. At family gatherings, people whose normal habits were sober and temperate became, for the nonce, eaters and drinkers of Pantagruelian capacity. The number of joints consumed and bottles emptied at a wedding feast was appalling. Hooft, who condemned such excesses as bestial and degrading, likened Amsterdam to the island of Circe, where men were changed into swine. In primitive times, the annual feasts held at the meetings of the military and artistic guilds were frugal in the extreme,

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