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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