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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... dogs . When I was a farmer they used to haul wheat two hundred miles in a wagon and sell it for thirty - five cents nel . They would bring home about three hundred f. TO THE FARMERS ON FARMING . THE FARMER LOOKING FOR GAME . [ 71 ]
... dogs . When I was a farmer they used to haul wheat two hundred miles in a wagon and sell it for thirty - five cents nel . They would bring home about three hundred f. TO THE FARMERS ON FARMING . THE FARMER LOOKING FOR GAME . [ 71 ]
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... cents a bushel for corn ; when they sold four bushels of potatoes for a quarter ; thirty - three dozen eggs for a dollar , and a hundred pounds of pork for a dol- lar and a half . What has made the difference ? The railroads came to ...
... cents a bushel for corn ; when they sold four bushels of potatoes for a quarter ; thirty - three dozen eggs for a dollar , and a hundred pounds of pork for a dol- lar and a half . What has made the difference ? The railroads came to ...
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... cent . bly can . WHAT A DOLLAR CAN DO . R. Spofford gives the following facts about interest : e dollar loaned for one hundred years at six per , with the interest collected annually and added to rincipal , will amount to three hundred ...
... cent . bly can . WHAT A DOLLAR CAN DO . R. Spofford gives the following facts about interest : e dollar loaned for one hundred years at six per , with the interest collected annually and added to rincipal , will amount to three hundred ...
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... cent . it amounts to only nineteen dollars and twenty - five cents . At ten per cent . it is thirteen thousand eight hundred and nine dollars , or about seven hundred times as much . At twelve per cent . it amounts to eighty - four ...
... cent . it amounts to only nineteen dollars and twenty - five cents . At ten per cent . it is thirteen thousand eight hundred and nine dollars , or about seven hundred times as much . At twelve per cent . it amounts to eighty - four ...
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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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