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 81
... nature to reinforce its claims . Why respect precedent ? asks Grotius rhetorically . Because it is ingrained in us , at birth , to revere our elders , so it is natural for us to defer to laws , customs and usages ancient authority and ...
... nature to reinforce its claims . Why respect precedent ? asks Grotius rhetorically . Because it is ingrained in us , at birth , to revere our elders , so it is natural for us to defer to laws , customs and usages ancient authority and ...
Pagina 132
... natural history of the Republic - as much part of the collective memory as battles and sieges . And as with all such ... nature , however imposing its phenomena . It is the absorp- tion of the extraordinary into the ordinary that is so ...
... natural history of the Republic - as much part of the collective memory as battles and sieges . And as with all such ... nature , however imposing its phenomena . It is the absorp- tion of the extraordinary into the ordinary that is so ...
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... nature that women were physically unsuited to the affairs of the world , he borrowed from Montaigne's style of skeptical relativism , citing Herodotus to the effect that in periods of Egyptian history , it was the women who had been ...
... nature that women were physically unsuited to the affairs of the world , he borrowed from Montaigne's style of skeptical relativism , citing Herodotus to the effect that in periods of Egyptian history , it was the women who had been ...
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