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.
It's a good start, but the ceiling is a bit much, and the woodwork would require an army of maids with barrels of cleaning product and furniture wax. You'd go baroque just trying to keep it clean. :P Simplicity closer to Franciscan has an allure of its own.
Very happy this was not destroyed in a war.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good start, but the ceiling is a bit much, and the woodwork would require an army of maids with barrels of cleaning product and furniture wax.
ReplyDeleteYou'd go baroque just trying to keep it clean. :P
Simplicity closer to Franciscan has an allure of its own.
I think it is gorgeous. To each his own.
DeleteDidn't say it wasn't.
DeleteBut it's a cast-iron bitch to keep it looking good.
The Golden Gate bridge is gorgeous too, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
I don't care what it would take to maintain it, it's beautiful.
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