Getting at The Inner Man: Acres of Diamonds - Couverture souple

Shackleton, Robert ; Conwell, Russell H.

9781500624378: Getting at The Inner Man: Acres of Diamonds

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1500624373 ISBN 13 : 9781500624378

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Russell Conwell himself is amused to remember that he wanted to talk in public from his boyhood, and that very early he began to yield to the inborn impulse. He laughs as he remembers the variety of country fairs and school commencements and anniversaries and even sewing-circles where he tried his youthful powers, and all for experience alone, in the first few years, except possibly for such a thing as a ham or a jack-knife! The first money that he ever received for speaking was, so he remembers with glee, seventy-five cents; and even that was not for his talk, but for horse hire! But at the same time there is more than amusement in recalling these experiences, for he knows that they were invaluable to him as training. And for over half a century he has affectionately remembered John B. Gough, who, in the height of his own power and success, saw resolution and possibilities in the ardent young hill-man, and actually did him the kindness and the honor of introducing him to an audience in one of the Massachusetts towns; and it was really a great kindness and a great honor, from a man who had won his[Pg 120] fame to a young man just beginning an oratorical career.

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