Exordium

I really hope that this is a way we can be seeing Sherwood Smith/Dave Trowbridge's highly excellent "Exordium" series back in "print"!

SF Tidbits for 2/28/06 2006

"Exordium," said I. "Just so," said the postillion; "I treated you to a per -- per -- peroration some time ago, so that I have contrived to put the cart before the horse, as the Irish orators frequently do in the honourable House, in whose speeches, especially those who have taken lessons in rhetoric, the per -- per -- what's the word?

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

"Exordium," said I. "Just so," said the postillion; "I treated you to a per -- per -- peroration some time ago, so that I have contrived to put the cart before the horse, as the Irish orators frequently do in the honourable House, in whose speeches, especially those who have taken lessons in rhetoric, the per -- per -- what's the word?

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

"Exordium," said I. "Just so," said the postillion; "I treated you to a per -- per -- peroration some time ago, so that I have contrived to put the cart before the horse, as the Irish orators frequently do in the honourable House, in whose speeches, especially those who have taken lessons in rhetoric, the per -- per -- what's the word?

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

I'm trying to get them, for example, to bring out the Exordium Series in electronic format.

SF Tidbits for 2/8/07 2007

Deliberative and judicial, and the several Parts of an oration, the Exordium

John Adams diary 10, includes legal notes, 24 January - 21 February 1765, August 1765 1961

Heart are distinguished as Miserability and Exordium; a Mass for the dead is spoken of as a Requiem, and so on.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

"Exordium Cisterciencis cenobii", which however may not be his.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Palm Sunday, they commenced to build the "New Monastery", as it is called in the "Exordium sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Exordium (Masserano, 1641); Hélyot, Hist. des Ordres Religieux, VI;

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913