Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… : 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 … the latter but describing the former as acts of ‘personal Favour and Affection’ and ‘trifles’. Yet an outraged printed response called this ‘an imaginary Distinction’. 12 Gifts were particularly problematic in colonial contexts. … 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 Regulating Act reinforced a company covenant that proscribed its servants …
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