Greek Primer, Colloquial and Constructive

<p>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. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

History

Stuart, Blackie John

Europe

BiblioLife

Scottish Song: Its Wealth, Wisdom, and Social Significance

The wise men of Greece, in a series of dramatic dialogues

A Song of Heroes

The poem selects a sequence of the most notable names in European and West Asian history during a period of more than three thousand years, and gives a sketch of their lives, as the bearers and exponents of the significant ages to which they belong. John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895) was the author of: Pronunciation of Greek (1852); Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece (1857); Three Discourses on Beauty (1858); Lyrical Poems (1860); Homer and the Iliad (1866); Democracy (1867); Musa Burschicosa (1869); War Songs of the Germans (1870); (1871); Lays of the Highlands and Islands (1872); Self-Culture (1873); Horææ Hellenicææ (1874); Songs (1876); The Natural History of Atheism (1877); Self-Culture (1877); Lay Sermons (1881); Altavona (1882); The Wisdom of Goethe (1883); Life of Robert Burns (1887); Scottish Song (1889); A Song of Heroes (1890); Essays on Subjects of Moral and Social Interest (1890); Christianity and the Ideal of Humanity in Old Times and New (1893).

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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