And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you like to parse elaborate sentences, may I suggest Faulkner?
And for some clear, concise descriptive prose try Manchester's opening section of his Churchill biography, wherein he describes the world condition at the turn of the century.
I think that Herman Melville was a literary genius. I've always held that opinion of him, much as he admired Hawthorne.
ReplyDeleteThat chapter has to be read slowly, chewed over thoroughly, to appreciate it properly. What an author!
DeleteI'll take Melville over Hawthorne any day.
ReplyDeleteIf you like to parse elaborate sentences, may I suggest Faulkner?
And for some clear, concise descriptive prose try Manchester's opening section of his Churchill biography, wherein he describes the world condition at the turn of the century.
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