The World's Best Orations, Volume 1
Author(s): Various
Genre(s): Literary Collections
Narrators: InTheDesert, Tonette2695, Michael Fassio, Kari Burns, Gloria Loughry, Cbteddy, TriciaG, Kevalam, Ted Lienhart, Mleigh, Bill Mosley, Paula Messina, Michael Natale, PeripateticTJ, Suzanne Carol, Aaron Zimmerman, Beeswaxcandle, Ernst Schnell, David Koberling, Amie Willingham, Carol Galbraith, Sam Cantrell
Number of Chapters: 56
Length: 19 hours and 20 minutes
Language: English
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! Do we not all feel the magic of the power, and when occasionally we are permitted to listen to a great orator how completely we lose ourselves and yield in willing submission to the imperious and impetuous flow of his speech!
We have not confined ourselves to any one profession or field of eloquence. The pulpit, the bar, the halls of legislation, and the popular assembly have each and all been called upon for their best contributions. The single test has been, is it oratory? the single question, is there eloquence? The reader and student of every class will therefore find within these pages that which will satisfy his particular taste and desire in the matter of oratory. - Summary by David J. Brewer
This is volume 1 of 10.