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 27
... what was necessary to save the Union . This letter disheartened to a great degree thousands and millions of the friends of freedom . They thought Mr. Lincoln had not attained the moral height upon they EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 27.
... what was necessary to save the Union . This letter disheartened to a great degree thousands and millions of the friends of freedom . They thought Mr. Lincoln had not attained the moral height upon they EULOGY ON LINCOLN . 27.
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... thought of him as a father . All who had lost their sons in battle felt that they had his sympathy - felt that his face was as sad as theirs . They knew that Lincoln was actuated by one motive , and that his energies were bent to the ...
... thought of him as a father . All who had lost their sons in battle felt that they had his sympathy - felt that his face was as sad as theirs . They knew that Lincoln was actuated by one motive , and that his energies were bent to the ...
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... thought , and every forest a fairy - land . In the coun- try you preseree your identity -- your personality . There you are an aggregation of atoms ; but in the city you are only an atom of an aggregation . Lincoln never finished his ...
... thought , and every forest a fairy - land . In the coun- try you preseree your identity -- your personality . There you are an aggregation of atoms ; but in the city you are only an atom of an aggregation . Lincoln never finished his ...
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... thought . He was 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 ...
... thought . He was 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 ...
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... thought others thought , but what he thought . If you wish to be sublime you must be natural - you must keep close to the grass . You must sit by the fire- side of the heart ; above the clouds it is too cold . You must be simple in your ...
... thought others thought , but what he thought . If you wish to be sublime you must be natural - you must keep close to the grass . You must sit by the fire- side of the heart ; above the clouds it is too cold . You must be simple in your ...
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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