With minds in pain, almost crushed by the immensity ofthe figures with which he had been juggling, we were silently walking home, a group of eight different personalities — philologians, historians, journalists, statisticians, and merely interested men of the world — walking two and two, like creatures half awake, down ❋ Unknown (2006)
Their dialect has produced an extensive literature and has been studied and described at length by competent philologians; in consequence there is no need to deal with it here at any length. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
The practising authors of the country, like its philologians, have always shown a gingery and suspicious attitude. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
Italian philologians, he himself exciting wonder through his great philological knowledge. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
I realised that if philologians have disputed as to how far Catullus 'poem of the girl's grief over the dead sparrow were jest or earnest, it was because they had never seen a girl weep over a bird. ❋ Brandes, George, 1842-1927 (1906)
Paul wants to dispose of the "wisdom of this world". his enemies are the good philologians and physicians of the Alexandrine school -- on them he makes his war. ❋ Unknown (1895)
His plain aim in "The Antichrist" was to combat that menace by completing the work begun, on the one hand, by Darwin and the other evolutionist philosophers, and, on the other hand, by German historians and philologians. ❋ Unknown (1895)
That it should be solely or chiefly or primarily the student's library, in any proper sense of the word, is as contrary to the spirit of the whole free public library movement as would be the making of the public schools an institution for the creation of Greek philologians. ❋ John Cotton Dana (1892)
[75] Such as _Latium_ from _latere_, (Aen.viii. 322), and others, some of which may be from Varro or other philologians. ❋ Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)
The emperor took a keen interest in all studies; he encouraged not merely poets but philologians and scientific writers, and he was not indisposed to protect historical study, if only it were treated in the way he approved. ❋ Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)
The principle of onomatopea has fallen into discredit, partly because it has been supposed to imply an actual manufacture of words out of syllables and letters, like a piece of joiner's work, -- a theory of language which is more and more refuted by facts, and more and more going out of fashion with philologians; and partly also because the traces of onomatopea in separate words become almost obliterated in the course of ages. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)
Lastly, it is doubted by recent philologians whether climate can be supposed to have exercised any influence worth speaking of on a language: such a view is said to be unproven: it had better therefore not be silently assumed. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)
He was in constant correspondence with the most eminent and learned philologians of his time. ❋ Eliezer Edwards (1853)
Some men are born philologians, loving _words_ for their own sake, -- men to whom the devious paths of language are open highways; who, as Lord Bacon says, "have come forth from the second general curse, which was the confusion of tongues, by the art of grammar." ❋ James Freeman Clarke (1849)
"wisdom of this world": his enemies are the _good_ philologians and physicians of the Alexandrine school -- on them he makes his war. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)
