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An Oration On The Life And Services Of Thomas Paine

An Oration On The Life And Services Of Thomas Paine

Green Ingersoll, Robert

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354502199
ISBN13: 9789354502194
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Few figures in revolutionary era America are so loved and so maligned as Thomas Paine. Robert Green Ingersoll meets him with fire, wit, and moral clarity. Words that still cut deep. An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine is a political oration text that blends thomas paine biography with the bigger sweep of american revolution history. Ingersoll, the era's great platform speaker, sets Paine among the arguments that shaped 18th century America: liberty, conscience, and the duty to question power. His admiration for deism and freethought sits beside a sharp defence of the outsider who helped ignite a nation, and the speech becomes a spirited doorway into founding fathers philosophy and enlightenment political thought. Delivered by America's famed freethinking lecturer, this address stands as a landmark of memorial rhetoric and a document in Paine's afterlife. Read it as part of a classic speeches collection, or alongside an annotated oration edition for comparison. Or as a compact companion to american history students tracing revolutionary pamphleteering and its aftershocks. The cadence and structure reward public speaking study, while the ideas speak to casual readers who want a vivid human portrait rather than a statue. Collectors of political literature will value Ingersoll's place in the long debate over Paine's reputation, and the way this oration bridges republican passion with sceptical modernity. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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