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 25
... moral analogy gave their collective self - recognition great immediacy . Those who had come through flood and had survived could hardly miss the differentiating significance of beproeving , or ordeal . So the trial of faith by adversity ...
... moral analogy gave their collective self - recognition great immediacy . Those who had come through flood and had survived could hardly miss the differentiating significance of beproeving , or ordeal . So the trial of faith by adversity ...
Pagina 49
... moral ambiguity of materialism surfaced in an attempt to patrol manners in the best interest of the safety of the community . But while the tensions of a capitalism that endeavored to make itself moral were the same whether in sixteenth ...
... moral ambiguity of materialism surfaced in an attempt to patrol manners in the best interest of the safety of the community . But while the tensions of a capitalism that endeavored to make itself moral were the same whether in sixteenth ...
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... morals , one in the inscriptio and another in the subscriptio.59 The emblem reads , literally , " Too sharp makes jagged . " The primary moral argues against the decay that produced the verminous swarm , but the secondary , more ...
... morals , one in the inscriptio and another in the subscriptio.59 The emblem reads , literally , " Too sharp makes jagged . " The primary moral argues against the decay that produced the verminous swarm , but the secondary , more ...
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