The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeCollins, 1987 - 698 pagina's This text explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. |
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Pagina 98
... Fatherland we have time and again felt and beheld your all - mighty power and the blessings of your inscrutable wisdom , and have received succor and favor when stricken by ferocious tyrants ; even as we were thrown into great poverty ...
... Fatherland we have time and again felt and beheld your all - mighty power and the blessings of your inscrutable wisdom , and have received succor and favor when stricken by ferocious tyrants ; even as we were thrown into great poverty ...
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... Fatherland - commemorative or " immemorial . " For all the overkill of its dramatic bravura , Rembrandt's Claudius Civilis was painted to a commission to represent the founding oath taken during a ritual feast . 169 But by the same ...
... Fatherland - commemorative or " immemorial . " For all the overkill of its dramatic bravura , Rembrandt's Claudius Civilis was painted to a commission to represent the founding oath taken during a ritual feast . 169 But by the same ...
Pagina 495
... Fatherland , and their presence before the grave of the father of the Fatherland was a kind of inter - generational learning exercise in the importance of historical legacy and future trust . For the Republic to survive and prosper ...
... Fatherland , and their presence before the grave of the father of the Fatherland was a kind of inter - generational learning exercise in the importance of historical legacy and future trust . For the Republic to survive and prosper ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the ... Simon Schama Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1988 |
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