But the penthouses languished on the market, until he began marketing them as combined space for superaffluent buyers.

Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line.

By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.

[K]nowing that the minds of the people, rendered ferocious by a military life, would never accommodate themſelves to the practice of theſe [principles of justice, laws, and morals], during the continuance of war, he [Numa Pompilius] reſolved, by a diſuſe of arms, to mollify the fierceneſs of their temper: with this view, he built a temple to Janus, near the foot of the hill Argiletum, which was to notify a ſtate either of war or of peace: when open, it denoted that the ſtate was engaged in war; when ſhut, that there was peace with all the ſurrounding nations.