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Grey complied; and, laying her shrunken hand on her brother's knee, Miss Jane said, hesitatingly, "My dear boy, I don't know whether I ought to tell you, and, indeed, I do not see my way clearly; but you seem so unsuspecting that I think it is my duty to talk to you." "Pray come to the point, dear Janet. Your exordium is very tantalizing. Tell me frankly what disturbs you."
By breadth is meant such a massing of the quantities, whether by color, light, or shadow, as shall enable the eye to pass without obstruction, and by easy transitions, from one to another, so that it shall appear to take in the whole at a glance. This may be likened to both the exordium and peroration of a discourse, including as well the last as the first general idea.
General Grosvenor commences with an exordium eloquent in succinctness and noble in generosity. "I cannot let pass this opportunity at the close of a long session of Congress, and at the end of three years of this Administration, without putting on record to enlighten future generations the history of the part which the colored citizen has had in the stirring events of this remarkable period.
Brooke heard the laughter; but he had expected some Tory efforts at disturbance, and he was at this moment additionally excited by the tickling, stinging sense that his lost exordium was coming back to fetch him from the Baltic.
If I am mistaken I er ask your pardon, and theirs and er hold myself responsible er personally responsible!" The preacher glanced uneasily at the colonel, but replied, still in the hysterical intonation of his exordium: "Yes! a complete searching of hearts a casting out of the seven Devils of Pride, Vain Glory" "Thank you that is sufficient," said the colonel blandly.
"No," said Rachel, "don't call her. I do not wish to see her yet. It will be necessary to see her later on; but first of all I desire to speak to you alone." Fuller looked a little scared at this exordium, but Rachel did not notice him.
It was his exordium; it demanded the attention of the company; and though he had it not, he continued: "I'm an Arkansas man, I am. I'm a big su-gar planter, I am. All right! Go a'ead! I own fifty niggers, I do. Yee-p!" He lifted both feet and slammed them on the floor energetically, pausing for a reply. He had addressed all men; no one responded, and he went on:
For the day when the sublime exordium of the Declaration of Independence could be stigmatized as a 'glittering generality, is gone by. The basis of our American system of government, it is no longer doubted, is the equality of all men before the law, as the basis of our Christian faith is the equality of all men before God.
They cannot make out your silence; they are expecting to hear of some terrible disaster, to account for your delay. Zeus. What do you think? Reel off the exordium in Homer? Herm. Which one? Zeus. Lend me your ears, Gods all and Goddesses. Herm. Rubbish! you made quite exhibition enough of yourself in that vein in our cabinet council.
He praised Grainger's Ode on Solitude, in Dodsley's Collection, and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:
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