1952. The thoughts of critics and of those who have sweated hard in languages and grammaticality, were depicted to me earlier as closed lines, inside of which there was nothing [cf. 1940].
1952. The thoughts of critics, and of those who have devoted much labor to languages and to grammatical [studies], were also, on a former occasion, represented to me as closed lines, within which there was nothing.
1952. Criticorum, et [eorum] 1
qui linguis ac grammaticalibus multum insudarunt, cogitationes repraesentatae sunt prius [1940] mihi sicut lineae clausae, in quibus intus nihil.
Footnotes:
1. sic in J.F.I. Tafel's edition