Sentence:  Indeed <WSD>philology</WSD> properly is terse and polite learning...; being that florid skill containing only the roses of learning, without the prickles thereof, in which narrow sense thorny philosophy is discharged, as no part of <WSD>philology</WSD>. But we take it in the larger notion, as inclusive of all human liberal studies... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.<ref name= "isbn0-19-861271-0">Brown, Lesley. The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles pub. Clarendon Oxford 1993 isbn0-19-861271-0</ref>