Middle Ageu 43 
At this diftance of time, perhaps it may 
require fome warmth of imagination, to 
pifture to the mind that fatisfadion, which 
ingenuous and learned m.en muft have ex- 
perienced, who Hved when the veil was re- 
moved, which for ages had obfcured and 
confined thofe elegant fources of intellec- 
tual enjoyments, which the writings of the 
antients difplay ; when the means of attain- 
ing them were, by the invention of print- 
ing, fq happily amplified, and the progrefs, 
pot only of thofe arts and fciences which 
^mbellifh, but of thofe which alfo dignify 
human nature by their utility, was 
longer retarded. 
c n A' P. 
