Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators


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(5 étoiles; 3 critiques)

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)

Chapitres

Pericles, Part 1 17:39 Lu par Cbteddy
Pericles, Part 2 20:47 Lu par Cbteddy
Mark Anthony, Part 1 27:30 Lu par Availle
Mark Anthony, Part 2 26:16 Lu par Availle
Savonarola, Part 1 22:01 Lu par Belinda Mc
Savonarola, Part 2 21:08 Lu par Belinda Mc
Martin Luther, Part 1 33:30 Lu par Belinda Mc
Martin Luther, Part 2 37:06 Lu par Belinda Mc
Edmund Burke 36:50 Lu par jenno
William Pitt 32:12 Lu par jenno
Jean Paul Marat 28:16 Lu par Cbteddy
Robert Ingersoll, Part 1 25:31 Lu par Cbteddy
Robert Ingersoll, Part 2 24:30 Lu par Cbteddy
Patrick Henry, Part 1 19:06 Lu par Cbteddy
Patrick Henry, Part 2 17:56 Lu par Cbteddy
Starr King, Part 1 25:54 Lu par Paul Williams Jr
Starr King, Part 2 30:24 Lu par TriciaG
Henry Ward Beecher, Part 1 23:50 Lu par Cbteddy
Henry Ward Beecher, Part 2 23:00 Lu par Cbteddy
Wendell Phillips, Part 1 21:54 Lu par Cbteddy
Wendell Phillips, Part 2 21:31 Lu par Cbteddy

Critiques

Very Misguided


(5 étoiles)

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.