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.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Shipwreck off the rocky coast (detail), by Vilhelm Melbye 1858
Those people look way too small for the type of warship, esp. when compared to the cannons.
ReplyDeleteI say them same. The people are too small.
DeleteNot a good day for them...
ReplyDeleteAnd during a storm all cannon would be inside, ports closed tight.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely too small, a man could just stand up on one of the gun deck so should about as higher than as the white stripe
ReplyDeleteWhile the technical defects are obvious the brush work is rather pleasing. Fixing the former is easier than fixing the latter.
ReplyDeleteBetter them than me.
ReplyDeleteBear Claw