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 60
... practice . So it was not fortuitous that during the whole first century of Dutch freedom , there was but one national synod . And down through the pyramidal structure of the Reformed Church , from provincial synods to the district ...
... practice . So it was not fortuitous that during the whole first century of Dutch freedom , there was but one national synod . And down through the pyramidal structure of the Reformed Church , from provincial synods to the district ...
Pagina 330
... practice , Dutch Calvinism did consider the possibility that a Christian merchant might not be a contradiction in terms . The most important of those tracts specifi- cally devoted to reconciling commerce and godliness was the Zeeland ...
... practice , Dutch Calvinism did consider the possibility that a Christian merchant might not be a contradiction in terms . The most important of those tracts specifi- cally devoted to reconciling commerce and godliness was the Zeeland ...
Pagina 468
... practice actually upheld the normative code of the city without ever making it so absolute as to jeopardize prudent administration . Mandeville's candor doubtless horrified the Dutch magistracy , as it cer tainly did the English . Yet ...
... practice actually upheld the normative code of the city without ever making it so absolute as to jeopardize prudent administration . Mandeville's candor doubtless horrified the Dutch magistracy , as it cer tainly did the English . Yet ...
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