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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State’. Gifting was not, of course, new in the long eighteenth-century and there was already a long tradition of writing … and to that Prince who bestowed those Presents; when they are not exacted from him by Compulsion; when he is in a State of Independence, and can do with his Money what he pleases, and when they are not received to the Disadvantage of …
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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… challenged. It was, however, a great place to learn the latest court scandal, and being seen there among nobles and statesmen implicitly raised his status. Across London, at the Royal Exchange in Cheapside and in the surrounding … was prudent given that the Nonconformists’ reaction to renewed government persecution could prove a major threat to the state. Pepys explained his readiness to keep up connections with some of his relatives in similarly instrumental terms. …
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