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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... never hat time Lincoln appreciated the scope and con- nces of the impending conflict . Above all other hts in his mind was this : This conflict will settle estion , at least for centuries to come , whether man able of governing himself ...
... never hat time Lincoln appreciated the scope and con- nces of the impending conflict . Above all other hts in his mind was this : This conflict will settle estion , at least for centuries to come , whether man able of governing himself ...
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... never appeared , and it may be the greatest soldiers have lived 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 ...
... never appeared , and it may be the greatest soldiers have lived 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 ...
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... never was satisfied until he fully understood not only the facts , not only the law applicable to such facts , but the reason of the law . If any one doubts his legal ability , let him read , first , the opinion of Chief Justice Taney ...
... never was satisfied until he fully understood not only the facts , not only the law applicable to such facts , but the reason of the law . If any one doubts his legal ability , let him read , first , the opinion of Chief Justice Taney ...
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... never afraid to ask - never gnified to admit that he did not know . No man had r wit or kinder humor . may be that humor is the pilot of reason . People ut or sees the other side - stands in the wind like a ator , a good - natured ...
... never afraid to ask - never gnified to admit that he did not know . No man had r wit or kinder humor . may be that humor is the pilot of reason . People ut or sees the other side - stands in the wind like a ator , a good - natured ...
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... never be forgotten . It will S. SARAH BUSH LINCOLN , LINCOLN'S STEPMOTHER . ntil languages are dead and lips are dust . The h of Everett will never be read . e elocutionists believe in the virtue of voice , the nity of syntax , the ...
... never be forgotten . It will S. SARAH BUSH LINCOLN , LINCOLN'S STEPMOTHER . ntil languages are dead and lips are dust . The h of Everett will never be read . e elocutionists believe in the virtue of voice , the nity of syntax , the ...
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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