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The book has a contents list that includes An Appreciation, Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements, and the title page names Russell H. Conwell as founder of Temple University, Philadelphia, with a life by Robert Shackleton and an autobiographical note. A passage tells of Ali Hafed, and of an Arab guide who says that had Ali Hafed stayed at home and dug in his own garden he would have had 'acres of diamonds'; the story is linked to the diamond mine of Golconda.
The life chapters carry titles such as The Story of the Sword, The Beginning at Old Lexington, Story of the Fifty-Seven Cents, His Power as Orator and Preacher and How a University Was Founded. One passage tells how an owner of land agreed to sell it for ten thousand dollars, taking a first payment of fifty-seven cents and leaving the rest on a five per cent mortgage. Another describes a farmer boy who walked a long way to hear Conwell speak.
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- Author
- Russell H. Conwell
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 83
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Biography
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