Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… ‘he was made up of bribes and that he makes every sort of tradesman to bribe him; and invited me home to his house to taste of his bribe-wine.’ 11 10 . Diary of Samuel Pepys, 2 Feb. 1664 ; 3 Apr. 1663. 11 . Diary of Samuel Pepys, 30 July … gave away in large quantities to sympathisers such as Thomas Clarkson, who in turn gave them to the others, until ‘the taste for wearing them became general; and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for …
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