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.
The figure appears to have been made to fit that tilted space, but it got worse, and they had to add a wedge base between the pedestal and the statue to accommodate the increased tilt while cementing it back together. Wonder how old the various parts are?
Somewhere in Pisa, Italy...
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ReplyDeleteThe figure appears to have been made to fit that tilted space, but it got worse, and they had to add a wedge base between the pedestal and the statue to accommodate the increased tilt while cementing it back together. Wonder how old the various parts are?
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