Ingersoll on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, …
Robert G. Ingersoll
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Col. Ingersoll begins his popular lecture series on famous persons as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the unmeaning waste and shattered spoil of thoughtless Chance." One of the most famous orators of his day, a contemporary and personal friend of Mark Twain and General Grant, Ingersoll's lectures on famous people herein includes: SHAKESPEARE, ROBERT BURNS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOLTAIRE, WALT WHITMAN; followed by inspiring speeches on THE GREAT INFIDELS, WHICH WAY? (science or superstition), and ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.
Each lecture in Volume 3 (of the 12 volume set of the Dresden Edition) will be presented on Librivox as a separate audiobook in the series entitled Ingersoll on Famous People. ( Michele Fry)
(1 hr 20 min)
Chapitres
| I. AN INHERITANCE OF EXTREMES | 11:25 | Lu par Michele Fry |
| II. A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND | 5:53 | Lu par John |
| III. SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR | 6:34 | Lu par John |
| IV. LINCOLN'S PROPOSAL OF GRADUAL EMANCIPATION | 3:31 | Lu par John |
| V. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | 6:55 | Lu par John |
| VI. ENEMIES AT HOME AND ABROAD | 3:24 | Lu par John |
| VII. SLAVERY | 2:57 | Lu par John |
| VIII. LINCOLN’S WATCHFULNESS | 4:42 | Lu par John |
| X. THE KEENEST SENSE OF HUMOR | 6:36 | Lu par John |
| IX. LINCOLN THE PARDONER | 4:43 | Lu par John |
| XI. GENERAL HOOKER | 3:05 | Lu par KevinS |
| XII. LINCOLN THE STATESMAN | 2:05 | Lu par KevinS |
| XIII. LEAD ACTOR IN A GREAT DRAMA | 3:25 | Lu par KevinS |
| XIV. SUMMARY | 15:00 | Lu par Michele Fry |