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 395
... virtue . It is virtue offered within the same canvas , at work and at home , the knife grinding itself invoking the universal image of hard unremitting toil , and in the foreground the mother at the threshold of the dwelling , occupied ...
... virtue . It is virtue offered within the same canvas , at work and at home , the knife grinding itself invoking the universal image of hard unremitting toil , and in the foreground the mother at the threshold of the dwelling , occupied ...
Pagina 398
... virtue goes Yet of her gifts but little knows ... No slut at home no doll outdoors A wife that puts her best step forth In virtue fair ... A wife that honors neighbors close But seldom out of doors doth go A wife , a still and peaceful ...
... virtue goes Yet of her gifts but little knows ... No slut at home no doll outdoors A wife that puts her best step forth In virtue fair ... A wife that honors neighbors close But seldom out of doors doth go A wife , a still and peaceful ...
Pagina 480
... Virtue needed vice as a civic prophylactic , a sponge that could soak up all the loathsomeness that would otherwise seep into the purer body of their community . And virtue needed vice to mark off borders just because its own frontiers ...
... Virtue needed vice as a civic prophylactic , a sponge that could soak up all the loathsomeness that would otherwise seep into the purer body of their community . And virtue needed vice to mark off borders just because its own frontiers ...
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