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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... Live in Villages ... Getting up Early in the Morning .. The Fashions and Handsome Women . Home vs. The Boarding - house .. 19 29 5 I 53 55 56 61 63 65 67 69 71 74 76 77 78 79 80 82 83 84 dustry and Brotherhood ..... That the Railroads ...
... Live in Villages ... Getting up Early in the Morning .. The Fashions and Handsome Women . Home vs. The Boarding - house .. 19 29 5 I 53 55 56 61 63 65 67 69 71 74 76 77 78 79 80 82 83 84 dustry and Brotherhood ..... That the Railroads ...
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... live in the same nation the same brain . e Republc had reached a crisis , the conflict be- n Liberty and Slavery could no longer be delayed . 1 the heights of philosophy - standing above the con- Ing hosts , above the prejudices , above ...
... live in the same nation the same brain . e Republc had reached a crisis , the conflict be- n Liberty and Slavery could no longer be delayed . 1 the heights of philosophy - standing above the con- Ing hosts , above the prejudices , above ...
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... lives for us they must ompted by the strongest motive - even the promise edom . And the promise , being made , must be و ere is one line in this letter that will give it rtality ; The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the other ...
... lives for us they must ompted by the strongest motive - even the promise edom . And the promise , being made , must be و ere is one line in this letter that will give it rtality ; The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the other ...
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... lives of perfect peace . Lincoln assumed the leading part of the greatest drama ever acted upon the stage of a continent . His criticisms of military movements , his correspon- dence with his generals and others on the conduct of the ...
... lives of perfect peace . Lincoln assumed the leading part of the greatest drama ever acted upon the stage of a continent . His criticisms of military movements , his correspon- dence with his generals and others on the conduct of the ...
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... live in a great city , where poverty degrades and failure brings despair . The fields are lovelier than paved streets , and great forests than walls of brick . Oaks and elms are more poetic than steeples and chimneys . In the country is ...
... live in a great city , where poverty degrades and failure brings despair . The fields are lovelier than paved streets , and great forests than walls of brick . Oaks and elms are more poetic than steeples and chimneys . In the country is ...
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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