Ingersoll on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 3
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)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Literary Collections
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | I. AN INHERITANCE OF EXTREMES | Michele Fry |
00:11:25 |
Play 02 | II. A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND | John |
00:05:53 |
Play 03 | III. SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR | John |
00:06:34 |
Play 04 | IV. LINCOLN'S PROPOSAL OF GRADUAL EMANCIPATION | John |
00:03:31 |
Play 05 | V. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | John |
00:06:55 |
Play 06 | VI. ENEMIES AT HOME AND ABROAD | John |
00:03:24 |
Play 07 | VII. SLAVERY | John |
00:02:57 |
Play 08 | VIII. LINCOLN’S WATCHFULNESS | John |
00:04:42 |
Play 09 | X. THE KEENEST SENSE OF HUMOR | John |
00:06:36 |
Play 10 | IX. LINCOLN THE PARDONER | John |
00:04:43 |
Play 11 | XI. GENERAL HOOKER | KevinS |
00:03:05 |
Play 12 | XII. LINCOLN THE STATESMAN | KevinS |
00:02:05 |
Play 13 | XIII. LEAD ACTOR IN A GREAT DRAMA | KevinS |
00:03:25 |
Play 14 | XIV. SUMMARY | Michele Fry |
00:15:00 |