[T]here are local jealousies and disunities which are not likely to be soothed by the patent fact that companies which most strenuously assert the I-am-holier-than-thou claim daily violate the rules by which they profess to be invariably governed, …]

A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole.

Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean. I started running through a nice opening question. Something safe about his job, his current work.

At the same time, Temür created his own capital, Samarqand, a very unnomadic thing to do, adorned it with the treasure of his conquests, and surrounded it with villages named after the ancient Islamic cities he so thoroughly sacked.