Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of the subject and their oeuvre.
In this volume he reflects on the lives of eminent orators, among them Pericles, Mark Anthony, Martin Luther, Jean Paul Marat, Robert Ingersoll and others. (Summary by Lucy Perry, adapted by Ava)
This is Volume 7 in a series of 14 books. (8 hr 56 min)
Chapters
| Pericles, Part 1 | 17:39 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Pericles, Part 2 | 20:47 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Mark Anthony, Part 1 | 27:30 | Read by Availle |
| Mark Anthony, Part 2 | 26:16 | Read by Availle |
| Savonarola, Part 1 | 22:01 | Read by Belinda Mc |
| Savonarola, Part 2 | 21:08 | Read by Belinda Mc |
| Martin Luther, Part 1 | 33:30 | Read by Belinda Mc |
| Martin Luther, Part 2 | 37:06 | Read by Belinda Mc |
| Edmund Burke | 36:50 | Read by jenno |
| William Pitt | 32:12 | Read by jenno |
| Jean Paul Marat | 28:16 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Robert Ingersoll, Part 1 | 25:31 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Robert Ingersoll, Part 2 | 24:30 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Patrick Henry, Part 1 | 19:06 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Patrick Henry, Part 2 | 17:56 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Starr King, Part 1 | 25:54 | Read by Paul Williams Jr |
| Starr King, Part 2 | 30:24 | Read by TriciaG |
| Henry Ward Beecher, Part 1 | 23:50 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Henry Ward Beecher, Part 2 | 23:00 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Wendell Phillips, Part 1 | 21:54 | Read by Cbteddy |
| Wendell Phillips, Part 2 | 21:31 | Read by Cbteddy |
Reviews
Very Misguided
Bill Cosby
The thing all these orators shared was raycysm. They could wax eloquent by standing upon the rotting corpses of millions of BIPOCs they systemically oppressed so that they could practice their cissy rhetorical orations. Oratory cannot be great, unless it has had the time to be honed and refined. Only an idle white leisure class had this time. The time was purchased with the dead bodies of millions of oppressed nonbinary BIPOCs who led short hard lives so that white males could practice their silly oratory skills. Every eloquent speech kills hundreds of BIPOCs who gave their life so that a white orator can take credit for a good speech. We are getting better though, because today's speech sounds imbecilic compared to the orations of the past. This is because we are less raycyst and no longer kill as many BIPOCs as we used to.