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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Release Date: December 7, 2007 [EBook #23761]

Language: English

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LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOLUME 7

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

by

ELBERT HUBBARD

Memorial Edition

New York

1916.

CONTENTS

PERICLES
MARK ANTONY
SAVONAROLA
MARTIN LUTHER
EDMUND BURKE
WILLIAM PITT
JEAN PAUL MARAT
ROBERT INGERSOLL
PATRICK HENRY
STARR KING
HENRY WARD BEECHER
WENDELL PHILLIPS

PERICLES

When we agreed, O Aspasia! in the beginning of our loves, to
communicate our thoughts by writing, even while we were both in
Athens, and when we had many reasons for it, we little foresaw the
more powerful one that has rendered it necessary of late. We never
can meet again: the laws forbid it, and love itself enforces them.
Let wisdom be heard by you as imperturbably, and affection as
authoritatively, as ever; and remember that the sorrow of Pericles
can rise but from the bosom of Aspasia. There is only one word of
tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before;
and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never
hear said, farewell.

* * * * *

And now at the close of my day, when every light is dim and every
guest departed, let me own that these wane before me, remembering,
as I do in the pride and fulness of my heart, that Athens confided
her glory, and Aspasia her happiness, to me.

Have I been a faithful guardian? Do I resign them to the custody of
the gods, undiminished and unimpaired? Welcome then, welcome, my
last hour! After enjoying for so great a number of years, i