… ground of honour’ ( Ibid. ). 2 . ‘While honour and dignity are the reward of virtue, any lapse of it that may tend to affect the character of gentleman, is punishable by formal expulsion from peculiar association, and ultimately, with loss …
… arises not from our living in the world but from the world living in us, occupying our hearts and monopolizing our affections. ‘ ( Thoughts 70) 9 . Letter 25 May 1818 to Mrs Barker Silverton, Barley Wood, Add MS 42511, British Library. …
Gifts and Gift-giving
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… and Bribery in corrupting Judges’, condemning 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 …