Great Speeches of Col. R. G. IngersollCosimo, Inc., 2009 M01 1 - 454 pages As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life.Considered in their day some of the finest gems of oratory, these lectures by Ingersoll feature some of his most entertaining and most insightful yet lesser known talks, including: "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln" "Grand Future of America" "Best Portion of the Earth" "Getting Up Early in the Morning" "The Fashions and Handsome Women" "What the Railroads Have Done" "How a Man Should Treat His Wife and Children" "Ingersoll's Beautiful Dream" "War to Be a Failure" "Sufferings of the Slaves" "The Question of Superiority" "What Is a Capitalist?" "The Government a Pauper" "Beware of Bachelors" and many more. |
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... United States . 227 ne Period of Inflation ... 228 erchants and Drummers . 232 e Crash ......... .. 233 operty Commenced to Decline .. 234 at Money ..... 236 e Second Definition .. 237 e Government a Pauper . 238 oney Has a Great Liking ...
... United States . 227 ne Period of Inflation ... 228 erchants and Drummers . 232 e Crash ......... .. 233 operty Commenced to Decline .. 234 at Money ..... 236 e Second Definition .. 237 e Government a Pauper . 238 oney Has a Great Liking ...
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... had the right to enforce the laws of the Union in all parts of the United States and Territories - knowing , as he did , that the secessionists in the wrong , he also knew they had sympathizers EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 23.
... had the right to enforce the laws of the Union in all parts of the United States and Territories - knowing , as he did , that the secessionists in the wrong , he also knew they had sympathizers EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 23.
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... united against him- It is not for me to criticise their motives or their actions . It is enough to say that the magnanimity of Lincoln to- www WHITE PIGEON CHURCH . The unpretentious edifice where Abraham EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 33.
... united against him- It is not for me to criticise their motives or their actions . It is enough to say that the magnanimity of Lincoln to- www WHITE PIGEON CHURCH . The unpretentious edifice where Abraham EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 33.
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... united with shrewdness and profound wisdom , told Mr. Greeley that if the South really wanted peace he ( Lincoln ) desired the same thing , and was do- ing all he could to bring it about . Greeley insisted that a commissioner should be ...
... united with shrewdness and profound wisdom , told Mr. Greeley that if the South really wanted peace he ( Lincoln ) desired the same thing , and was do- ing all he could to bring it about . Greeley insisted that a commissioner should be ...
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... united forever . ved until there remained nothing for him to do as as he had done . at he did was worth living for , worth dying for . lived until he stood in the midst of universal joy , th the outstretched wings of peace the foremost ...
... united forever . ved until there remained nothing for him to do as as he had done . at he did was worth living for , worth dying for . lived until he stood in the midst of universal joy , th the outstretched wings of peace the foremost ...
Contents
86 | |
gersoll on Cookery | 92 |
INATING BLAINE | 100 |
hy the Colonel is a Republican | 108 |
gersolls Remarkable Vision | 115 |
e Money Question | 121 |
gersolls Beautiful Dream | 129 |
ne American Republic | 136 |
ne Way Out | 244 |
ORATION AT A CHILDS GRAVE | 253 |
OUR COUNTRY | 265 |
INGERSOLL ON AMERICAN NATIONALITY | 288 |
o Preserve Slavery | 293 |
e Solid South | 306 |
ate Sovereignty | 327 |
THE NORTH AND SOUTH | 341 |
braham Lincoln | 142 |
ne Republican Platform | 148 |
SPEECH TO VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS | 167 |
e Must Stand by the Party | 209 |
A FOR HONEST MONEY | 217 |
OR CAPITAL ETC | 225 |
erchants and Drummers | 232 |
Not Preaching a Gospel of Hate | 382 |
FIAT MONEY | 404 |
MONEY AND PROTECTION | 411 |
onor Versus Fraud | 428 |
ant Business Not Charity | 434 |
usts and Syndicates | 440 |
epublican Party for Labor | 446 |
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