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Happy is he who loves his fatherland more than himself, / Finding pure delight in falling for its honor [(...)]
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 9 depictions of figures and scenes from national history. Below each image a six-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 60.
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Credit lineWel hem, die 't vaderland meer dan zich zelv' bemint, / In 't sneuv'len voor hare eer een' zuivren wellust vindt [(...)]. 1850 - 1870. Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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![Happy is he who loves his fatherland more than himself, / Finding pure delight in falling for its honor [(...)]](https://thumbs.arkivism.com/rijks-RP-P-OB-206.771.jpg)
Happy is he who loves his fatherland more than himself, / Finding pure delight in falling for its honor [(...)]
Uilenspiegel was a rogue, / And performed many whims; / But children, never follow his life, / Which would bring you no honor but shame
These six pairs of sketches in this print tableau wish to show, / What one comes to witness from the beginning of the year, / Until the end, and what happens in each month, / As you, o youth! see here in these twelve months
These six pairs of sketches in this print tableau wish to show, / What one comes to witness from the beginning of the year, / Until the end, and what happens in each month, / As you, o youth! see here in these twelve months
How courage and loyalty joined with cunning; / Once knew how to save De Groot. / And how he fled as a mason. / You will notice this on this fine print
If the world goes well, / Then each stands in his place, / The man at work, the woman at home, / If the order is reversed, it is not well