“There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without…”
“There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without…”

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“There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology is a logical emotion, the counterpart of philosophy, enthusiasm for chemical knowledge; for grammar is surely only the philosophical part of the universal art of dividing and joining.”

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

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