Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators


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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)

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

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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.