Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more worth while...
...Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" edited by W. H. Ireland and published in 1823 is illustrated with some of the more conventional work of George Cruikshank, the plates being engraved by him from drawings by other men. The same thing is true of "An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made...
...different had been his lot, he exclaimed. A gipsy boy, he never went to school and never had books to read and learn from. He had no chance, and yet it was not his fault but his misfortune. The change in his life came when he found God. "I am as sure that I found God as I am that I shake hands with you, that the sun is shining; just as certain as a scientist who works out his positive laws...
...soon as he began to speak, his hearers were impressed with the sincerity which he radiated. He confessed that he was frankly envious of the students at Harvard, ahead of whom lay all life's opportunities, for whom foundations are here being laid to help them build beautiful palaces, instead of mud huts...
Since God entered his life, Gipsy Smith says he has never ceased praying; and today he prays for Harvard students, that "you will became the best men America has ever known. God has put a great investment into you, and expects a big return; but if He could do so much for a no-man like myself, what...