...coasts by commercial cities as prosperous and powerful, as the most nourishing epoch of Greece ... an age wherein architecture soared with a new flight...too widely cultivated became an affair of state and practical life, wherein all the historical and literary knowledge which was at that time by any channels...

...powerful as in the most flourishing epoch of Greece ; and such was the case not only in the Mediterranean, but likewise in the Baltic Sea, to the ancients a...which was at that time by any channels accessible, was perused with passionate eagerness and desire, wherein natural science and mathematics were investigated...