Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… they are received not voluntarily; he holds the Receipt of such Presents dishonourable. 13 13 . Ibid., quoting from 'A Letter to the Proprietors of East India Stock', from Lord Clive (1764, reprinted 1773). The following year the India …
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