The Dutch setting isn't incidental - commercial tolerance may have shaped the content too. Grotius's natural law as applicable to trading parties, Spinoza's case for toleration: both fit a republic where heterodoxy needed to be justified to coexist, not just permitted.

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Francis Douce wrote "Etched and given to me by Colonel Turner of the Guards" below his impression (it seems that this Colonel Turner was Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who escorted the Rosetta Stone to England) www.ashmolean.org/collections-...

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‘A person becomes truly English the moment they realise what a pain it is to get to Cornwall’ @henrymance.ft.com I used to travel from London to Falmouth to attend a PhD committee meeting. The train would get to Devon and mild despair would kick in - there was still a LONG way to go.

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- Eight members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet referred firms to VIP lane, four of these ministers haven't been named before - Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart, and Robert Jenrick Firms in the VIP lane were 10 times more likely to win contracts, according to the National Audit Office.

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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After a *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected' 30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-m...

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