The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeThis 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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The arquebuses from which some of the regiments took their names became more and more antiquated , and the Sunday parades shot at nothing more terrifying than the wooden parrots that had become the special schutter sport .
The arquebuses from which some of the regiments took their names became more and more antiquated , and the Sunday parades shot at nothing more terrifying than the wooden parrots that had become the special schutter sport .
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Even at the turn of the century , when a Dutch Stadholder had become King William III ; when the Greenwich - Royal Society connection had become institutionalized ; and political arithmeticians like Lowndes and Blathwayt were entrenched ...
Even at the turn of the century , when a Dutch Stadholder had become King William III ; when the Greenwich - Royal Society connection had become institutionalized ; and political arithmeticians like Lowndes and Blathwayt were entrenched ...
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In time she had become simply “ the greatest and most powerful merchant city in all Europe . ... Truly it is a wondrous thing that it may be said that from a child and scarce e'er grown in its youth , Amsterdam has become a man so that ...
In time she had become simply “ the greatest and most powerful merchant city in all Europe . ... Truly it is a wondrous thing that it may be said that from a child and scarce e'er grown in its youth , Amsterdam has become a man so that ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - robeik - LibraryThingThis is a BIG book. Strap yourself in for a word and picture journey through the Netherlands of the 15th and 16th century. This is no history book; you are supposed to be somewhat familiar with it. An ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - jmoncton - LibraryThingSchama covers in amazing detail the culture and history of the Netherlands during the peak of its Golden Age in the seventeenth century. He provides great insight on some of the origins of the traits ... Volledige review lezen
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CHAPTER | 51 |
CHAPTER THREE FEASTING FASTING AND TIMELY ATONEMENT | 129 |
Whales on the beach writing on the wall | 130 |
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