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 read Patrick O'Brien's series you pictured that view many times
ReplyDeleteSometime ago I read the whole series. One of the best reads ever. Someday I will do it again.
DeleteAnd, yes, one of O'Brien's greatest gifts was describing seascapes. Every book had a marvelous sea scene in it.
I'm astonished that only one of the books was filmed, but Russel Crowe's "Master and Commander" was magnificent.
That's a laminated stick. That's one heck of a long lamination. Probably Douglas Fir.
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