Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-10
The Pedant Rebuked.

clergyman, who used very hard words in his
sermons to his Pensioners, by young gen.
tleman who, in passing through the village,
Incidentally heard him preach:
To the most Duteronomical, PoIydoxologist,
Pantiphological Linguist, Mr.. Archi Rabbi
SOphi Diotrephus, Greeting:
SIR The unanimous and humilimious de-
siderations, as we'll of your parochians as hic
ct ubiquftarran tHtterate semptgauiau audi
ditors, beg leave most submissively to remon-
strate, that through your specious proems and
specious introductions, promising great per-
spicuity in predication, you endeavor to en-
veigle our affections in order to indoctrinate
our agricOlated intellects with the calignious
sublinity Of internexed conundrums, nutri.
cateing with obstreperous cadences, 80 that
you rather obfusiate than illuminate our ABB
C-darian conceptions. Whilst our first, Sec
ond, and third selves, together with our do
mestics, all of ignoramus offspring, hear your
gigantic in lycophronious and pharigenous
raptures in words We never met with in Holy
Writ, such as corolaries and ephemeries with
out dilucidation of their genuine Specification,
admiration of your eximous erudition but
being under panic timidity lest we should
see restoration of the dialect of Babel, and
that some sesquipidalian circumferaneous Sal
trinbanco should mount the rostrum, and after
your example republic the quintessentials of
our ingenuosities with more amalgamations.
combinations, and fxations, we beg you to
call to mind the saying of st. Austin, "Nule-
ms ut repreAendat grammatici gunn. NON IN
teHtgit popnIi;;" the plain English of which
is, had sooner the grammarians should
blame me than the people misunderstood me-
We therefore, GORGEOUS sir, supplicate your
clemency not to look upon these lines as de-
rogatory to your most exquisite parts and pro-
found science for we rather admire such su-
perlative acquisitions, which, however We
humbly opine, are more proper to be displayed
before learned academicians than mechanical
and agrestical auditors. We beg you to call
to mind the saying of St. Paul, much greater
than st. Austin,) g If l know not the meaning
Of the voice, shall be as barbarian to him
that speaketh, and he that speaketh ehall be
as barbarian unto me-" We therefore for
our souls good, en- bonnie esperauce', that
your urbanity will not be exasperatcd with
the presentation of these our cordial desires
do, from the nadir of our rusticity almacante-
rize to the very zenith of your unparalleled
sphere Of activity In beseeching your cx-
uberant genius to intricate our rational appe-
titles with Ineligible theology suitable to our
plebian comprehensions, and to reconcile your
acromatical locutions for more scholastic
auscultators; and sooner shall the surges of
the sandiferous sea ignify and cvaporate, than
the bone of our duty towards you be the least
unconcatinate or dissolved.
Very submissively yours, ABC, &c,
P. S. Not being competent to write decor
ously to your worship, we have prevailed on
the schoolmaster of the parish to write in our
behalf.
ne foregoing was published about forty
five years since, in the Philadelphia Repertorv.
have never seen it in print since, and now
write from memory. If you think it wor h
publishing, you can do 90. E.