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.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Library Porn. The Portuguese call a library a "Cabinet of Reading."
It's good to see they don't stack the books on a cart out front with a sign that reads "Two books for 4 Brazilian reals"!
ReplyDeleteThat is some library!
I need to use that as a model for the expansion of the White Wolf Mine...
ReplyDeleteThank God!
ReplyDeleteCivilization at last.
Fantastic! Definitely 'Library Porn'! Hope you show more.
ReplyDeleteHistoric, charming, accessible: Providence Rhode Island
ReplyDeletehttps://providenceathenaeum.org/
Aesop:
ReplyDeleteThat's about what I need for the home collection so far.
Thanks for giving me something to aspire to.