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, May 26, 2023
Zenobia’s Last Look on Palmyra, Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888
Note the centurion looking over his shoulder at her, bottom right corner.
Palmyra is also a NY town where the Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, visited young Joseph Smith Jr. in 1820. The Hill Cumorah Pageant is held there annually.
I had to look her up.
ReplyDeletePalmyra is a town in New Jersey. I wonder how old that town really is?
ReplyDeletePalmyra is also a NY town where the Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, visited young Joseph Smith Jr. in 1820. The Hill Cumorah Pageant is held there annually.
DeleteWait! Is that Longinus?
ReplyDeletethis is a family blog, pal.
DeleteNice! And that knocks on the head the idea that the PreRaphaelites were all from the British isles.
ReplyDeleteI doubt he could actually see her from that location. The wall she's leaning on would block his view.
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