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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Page 23
... field and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearth - stone all over this broad land , will swell the chorus of the Union when again touched , as surely they will be , by the better angels of our nature . " These noble , these ...
... field and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearth - stone all over this broad land , will swell the chorus of the Union when again touched , as surely they will be , by the better angels of our nature . " These noble , these ...
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... field ; and the generals could have done nothing with- out their armies . The praise is due to all — to the pri- vate as much as to the officer ; to the lowest who did his duty , as much as to the highest . But Lincoln stood at the ...
... field ; and the generals could have done nothing with- out their armies . The praise is due to all — to the pri- vate as much as to the officer ; to the lowest who did his duty , as much as to the highest . But Lincoln stood at the ...
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... field of war he stood the peer of any man beneath the flag . Had McClellan followed his advice he would have taken Richmond . Had Hooker in accordance with his suggestions Chancellorsville I have been a EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 37.
... field of war he stood the peer of any man beneath the flag . Had McClellan followed his advice he would have taken Richmond . Had Hooker in accordance with his suggestions Chancellorsville I have been a EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 37.
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... fields are lovelier than paved streets , and great forests than walls of brick . Oaks and elms are more poetic than ... field is a picture , a landscape ; every landscape a poem ; every flower a ten- der thought , and every forest a ...
... fields are lovelier than paved streets , and great forests than walls of brick . Oaks and elms are more poetic than ... field is a picture , a landscape ; every landscape a poem ; every flower a ten- der thought , and every forest a ...
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... field of death to fight for the rights of hat did the soldier leave when he went ? He left ife and children . d he leave them in a beautiful home , surrounded by civilization , in the repose of law , in the INGERSOLL'S GREAT SPEECHES .
... field of death to fight for the rights of hat did the soldier leave when he went ? He left ife and children . d he leave them in a beautiful home , surrounded by civilization , in the repose of law , in the INGERSOLL'S GREAT SPEECHES .
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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