The World's Best Orations, Volume 4: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Orations, Volume 4, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The World's Best Orations, Volume 4 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Orations, Volume 4
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 78
• Listed recording duration: 19:35:53

Catalogue topics

• history
• speeches
• orations
• david crockett
• grover cleveland
• oliver cromwell
• roscoe conkling
• thomas corwin

Opening tracks: first 24 of 78

1. 01 - Dictators in American Politics Part 1 - Henry Clay — 21:31
2. 02 - Dictators in American Politics Part 2 - Henry Clay — 18:16
3. 03 - On the Expunging Resolutions - Henry Clay — 9:15
4. 04 - On the Seminole War - Henry Clay — 13:22
5. 05 - The Emancipation of South America - Henry Clay — 31:50
6. 06 - «The American System» and the Home Market - Henry Clay — 33:53
7. 07 - In Favor of a Paternal Policy of Internal Improvements - Henry Clay — 11:34
8. 08 - For «Free Trade and Seamen's Rights» - Henry Clay — 11:50
9. 09 - The Greek Revolution - Henry Clay — 7:56
10. 10 - The Noblest Public Virtue - Henry Clay — 5:14
11. 11 - Sixty Years of Sectionalism - Henry Clay — 29:14
12. 12 - The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and «Expansion» - John M. Clayton — 18:24
13. 13 - Justice the Supreme Law of Nations - John M. Clayton — 3:50
14. 14 - Cuba and «Manifest Destiny» - Jeremiah Clemens — 16:51
15. 15 - Democracies and Subject Colonies - Cleon — 9:28
16. 16 - First Inaugural Address - Grover Cleveland — 14:45
17. 17 - Federal Power and Local Rights - De Witt Clinton — 10:16
18. 18 - Against the Military Spirit - De Witt Clinton — 22:00
19. 19 - «Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!» - Howell Cobb — 8:42
20. 20 - The Man on the Tower - William Cobbett — 13:36
21. 21 - Free Trade with All Nations - Richard Cobden — 31:42
22. 22 - Small States and Great Achievements - Richard Cobden — 6:45
23. 23 - Answering William J. Bryan - William Bourke Cockran — 18:48
24. 24 - Prosecuting Sir Walter Raleigh - Sir Edward Coke — 20:24

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