Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… humane : It must be allowed its share of both ’. 3 2 . Robert L’Estrange, Seneca's Morals Abstracted in Three Parts (London: printed by T.N. for Henry Brome, 1679), pp. 77-78. 3 . Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship with Rules of Conducting it (London: Royston, 1657), pp. 100-101. Ideas about Christian charity – philanthropic sociability - also involved … kept a lion, a gift from Samuel Martin, the English consul in Algiers. 7 . Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Henry Wheatley (London: George Bell, 1893), 9 Sept. 1664. Gloves and engraved rings were common items in the eighteenth century – in …
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