Of Mercy

Freedom from want is the greatest freedom of all.

[millefeuilleus]

still life paintings by Jan van Huysum (1682 - 1749).

[ladyhistory]

I often feel like no one around me gets my passion for history and government

like I make references and jokes but no one gets them and they just stare at me blankly or worse, make fun of me

it gets really lonely

so thank you, tumblr, for getting me

[canis-venaticus]

Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

Megan Devine

[lemarechaldefer-deactivated2015]

art in details: 19th century male cravats by François-Xavier Fabre.

[lemarechaldefer-deactivated2015]

art in details: male portraits by Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)

[detailsofpaintings]

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, Still Life with Flowers in a Sculpted Urn with Architectural Fragment on a Terrace (detail)

1696

[wordsnquotes]

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (via wordsnquotes)

[theghostbeaters]

vg meme: [3/5] antagonists → haytham kenway from assassin’s creed III

Don’t think I have any intention of caressing your cheek and saying I was wrong. I will not weep and wonder what might have been. I’m sure you understand. Still… I’m proud of you in a way. You’ve shown great conviction. Strength. Courage. All noble qualities. I should have killed you long ago.

[cuirassier]

The 16th (Light) Dragoons, later known as the 16th Lancers or the Scarlet lancers, 1761-1887, by Reginald Augustus Wymer

[empire18th]

Sir James Clark Ross (April, 15 1800 – April 3, 1862), was a British naval officer and explorer.

[fortriiumph-a]

                   ’ i see the world the way it is, not as i wish it would be. ‘                          a man with a unique perspective.                                                  ✠ ✠ ✠

[tacerror]

Sons of the Empire (1899).

By Harry Payne from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection.

[britishimperialglory]

The greatest poster of the empire ever made in my eyes

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

I’m picturing @bantarleton crying tears of tea watching this.

[joachimmurat-archive-deactivate]

*BRITAIN INTENSIFIES*

[viktor-sbor]

          Franz Xaver Winterhalter -      Edouard Andre,1857

[estrangera]

“It’s dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you." — Frédéric Chopin, Chopin’s Letters. or; Sad Romantics Vol. I

01. Consolation n° 3 en ré bémol majeur, S. 172: I. Lento placido, Franz Liszt 02. L'Impromptu n° 3 en sol bémol majeur, Op. 90, Franz Schubert 03. Les Saisons n° 10 en ré mineur: Octobre, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 04. Mazurka n° 3 en ut dièse mineur, Op. 63, Frédéric Chopin 05. Nocturne n° 8 en mi mineur, John Field 06. Lieder ohne Worte n° 5 in h-moll, Op. 67, Felix Mendelssohn 07. Prélude n° 4 en mi mineur, Op. 28, Frédéric Chopin 08. Album Leaves, B. 109: I. Allegretto en fa dièse mineur, Antonín Dvořák 09. Romance en mi mineur, S169/R66a, Franz Liszt 10. Allegretto en ut mineur, D. 915, Franz Schubert 11. Chanson sans paroles n° 3 en si bémol majeur, Ivan Laskovsky 12. Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, B. 104: IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Antonín Dvořák

— (.zip) (8tracks)

[peashooter85]

Leonardo da Vinci sketch of a flush toilet, Codex Madrid I.

[peashooter85]

Ornate bone mounted wheel-lock pistol dated 1604, originates from Germany. 

[last-of-the-romans]

Historical images of Pompeii from the Library of Congress (x)