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.
Friday, January 13, 2023
L’animal dans la decoration - Maurice Pillard Verneuil - 1897
Still yet another one to add to my computer's collection, after searching for and finding the version with the highest resolution.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this and other works of art!
It's a lot of fun finding them. I'll keep you supplied.
DeleteI can hear the call.
ReplyDeleteBirch trees. My grandmother had 2 beautiful birch trees in her front yard. She also had a huge weeping willow that she would cut switches from.
ReplyDeleteBastards. Munching on someone’s landscape even back then…
ReplyDeleteYeah, my folks in WV couldn't keep a garden due to these "rats with long legs and hooves"
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