the Turks, however efficient they may have been in field operations, had little skill as engineers, and no acquaintance with the true principles of conducting a siege

And this is the ground and occasion of those Terms of the Symmetral and Asymmetral Times or State of the Church.

[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.

While most would take wealth if it were offered, and chrematophobia (a morbid fear of money) is practically unheard of, most people limit their rise to riches by both their emotional immaturities and their sensibilities and humanness.