Crossword-Solution: EXORDIUM 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

CHAPTER XCVIII An exordium--Fine ships--High Barbary captains--Free-born Englishmen--Monstrous figure--Swashbuckler--The grand coaches--The footmen--A travelling expedition--Black Jack--Nelson's cannon--Pharaoh's butler--A diligence--Two passengers--Sharking priest--Virgilio--Lessons in Italian--Two opinions--Holy Mary--Priestly confederates--Methodist chapel--Veturini--Some of our party--Like a sepulchre--All for themselves.

Then abandon all thoughts of a World from which you are eternally separated, and employ the few hours which are allowed you, in preparing for the next.” This exordium led me to expect something terrible.

His imprudence tempted his enemies to inflame the haughty spirit of Eudoxia, by reporting, or perhaps inventing, the famous exordium of a sermon, “Herodias is again furious; Herodias again dances; she once more requires the head of John;” an insolent allusion, which, as a woman and a sovereign, it was impossible for her to forgive.

SUBSTANCE IS ETERNAL This terror, then, this darkness of the mind, Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, But only Nature's aspect and her law, Which, teaching us, hath this exordium: Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

His imprudence tempted his enemies to inflame the haughty spirit of Eudoxia, by reporting, or perhaps inventing, the famous exordium of a sermon, "Herodias is again furious; Herodias again dances; she once more requires the head of John;" an insolent allusion, which, as a woman and a sovereign, it was impossible for her to forgive.