The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll novel. A total of 512 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll.Vol. 1.by Robert G. Ingersoll.PREFACE.IN presenting to
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll.Vol. 1.by Robert G. Ingersoll.PREFACE.IN presenting to the public this edition of the late Robert G.Ingersoll's works, it has been the aim of the publisher to make it worthy of the author and a pleasure to his friends
- 501 When shrill chanticleer pierces the dull ear of morn.Orthodoxy is the refuge of mediocrity.The ocean is the womb of all that will be, the tomb of all that has been.Jealousy never knows the value of a fact.Envy cannot reason, malice cannot prophesy.Love ha
- 502 In Geneva, Germany and France, all kinds of innocent amus.e.m.e.nt were allowed on that day; and I believe the same was true of Holland.But in Scotland the Jewish idea was adopted to the fullest extent. There Sabbath-breaking was one of the blackest and o
- 503 August 8, 1883.AT THE GRAVE OF BENJAMIN W. PARKER.* This was the first tribute ever delivered by Colonel Ingersoll at a grave. Mr. Parker himself was an Agnostic, was the father of Mrs. Ingersoll, and was always a devoted friend and admirer of the Colonel
- 504 A TRIBUTE TO JOHN G. MILLS.Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C., April 15, 1883.MY FRIENDS: Again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. We question, but there is no reply. Out on the wide waste seas, there drifts no spar. Over the desert of
- 505 You are about to take this dear dust home--to the home of her girlhood, and to the place that was once my home. You will lay her with neighbors whom I have loved, and who are now at rest. You will lay her where my father sleeps."Lay her i' the e
- 506 This imperious man entered public life in the dawn of the reformation--at a time when the country needed men of pride, of principle and courage. The inst.i.tution of slavery had poisoned all the springs of power. Before this crime ambition fell upon its k
- 507 Farewell! If this is the end, then you have left to us the sacred memory of a n.o.ble life. If this is not the end, there is no world in which you, my friend, will not be loved and welcomed. Farewell!A TRIBUTE TO COURTLANDT PALMER.New York, July 26, 1888.
- 508 She gave her utmost thought. She praised all generous deeds; applauded the struggling and even those who failed.She pitied the poor, the forsaken, the friendless. No one could fall below her pity, no one could wander beyond the circ.u.mference of her symp
- 509 To him all miracles were mistakes, whose parents were cunning and credulity. He knew that miracles were not, because they are not.He believed in the sublime, unbroken, and eternal march of causes and effects--denying the chaos of chance, and the caprice o
- 510 He has uttered more supreme words than any writer of our century, possibly of almost any other. He was, above all things, a man, and above genius, above all the snow-capped peaks of intelligence, above all art, rises the true man. Greater than all is the
- 511 A TRIBUTE TO DR. THOMAS SETON ROBERTSON.New York September 8, 1898.IN the pulseless hush of death, silence seems more expressive, more appropriate--than speech. In the presence of the Great Mystery, the great mystery that waits to enshroud us all, we feel
- 512 In his praise it was impossible to be extravagant. Sculptor, poet and painter exhausted their genius in the portrayal of the peasant, who was in fact the creator of all worlds.His wisdom excited the wonder, his sufferings the pity and his resurrection and