I therefore want to know if a captain of volunteers is justified in applying to his superior officer language unbecoming an officer and a gentleman? If he is, then I would suggest that a regulation vocabulary should be served out to the whole force, so that officers and men may know the class of language an officer may be justified in applying to those of superior or inferior rank to himself. This would prevent a surprise, and all branches of the service would thoroughly comprehend the nature of orders given, no matter how much vocabularium, rhetoric or polite word-painting the most learned officer may lavish upon them in discharge of his arduous duties.
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“This,” said Mr. Esking, with a sly smile, “is a very early transcript of Archbishop Alfric’s vocabularium, and this other is sent to me by a friend at Brussels, who believes it to be that copy of the same work which was in possession of Rubens, the painter, missing ever since his death.”
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Bishop, the mind reader, is in delicate health. Trying to raise Bostonese thoughts out of the rubbish of the metaphysico-techical^([sic]) vocabularium did it.
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After perusing many of the horse vocabulariums through and through they at last decided upon the mascot name that will carry her safely to the front—they christened her “Daylight,” and we will look anxiously after her future record as though we held a half interest.
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