philologer

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"Had Carlyle turned his mind to it he would have been a great philologer."

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

Hauptmann was not merely a philologer, which is a formidable thing in itself, but he belonged to the esoteric group that deals with languages which have no literature.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett

For myself, and for the real comfort and satisfaction of the thing, I had rather have been Jan Steen, or Gerard Dow, than the greatest casuist or philologer that ever lived.

From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William

He was at one and the same time a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

Its king is a brother of Zeus, one Pluto; whose name—so an able philologer assures me—contains a complimentary allusion to his ghostly wealth.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)