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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... become the special schutter sport . 112 Drums and fifes , and above all the spectacular unfurling of banners and ensigns , continued unabated , but they had become a substitute for , rather than the accompaniment of , a serious military ...
... become the special schutter sport . 112 Drums and fifes , and above all the spectacular unfurling of banners and ensigns , continued unabated , but they had become a substitute for , rather than the accompaniment of , a serious military ...
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... become a millstone round the neck of the Republic . Dutch will- ingness to accept the expulsion from Brazil but retain the West African posses- sions taken from the Portuguese , as well as strategic entrepôts in the Antilles and at ...
... become a millstone round the neck of the Republic . Dutch will- ingness to accept the expulsion from Brazil but retain the West African posses- sions taken from the Portuguese , as well as strategic entrepôts in the Antilles and at ...
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... 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 our neighbors ...
... 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 our neighbors ...
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