Author: Sir Lewis MichellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902
Author: Sir Lewis MichellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes, 1853-1902
Author: Sir Lewis MichellThe Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes, a Monograph and a Reminiscence
Author: Sir Thomas Elkins FullerPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes
Author: Cecil RhodesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, 1853-1902
Author: Sir Lewis MichellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes
Author: Lewis MichellThe Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes, a Monograph and a Reminiscence
Author: Sir Thomas Elkins FullerPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230245577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX CECIL JOHN EHODES: HIS IDEALS AND CHARACTER In sketching the career of Mr. Rhodes I have endeavoured to bring out his striking characteristics as the narrative proceeded, and to let the events themselves, the best of all interpreters, reveal the undercurrents of thought and purpose which shaped his life. I cannot conclude, however, without summarising what has been almost casually presented in following a history so full of great events and issues. It has been said that Cecil Rhodes somewhat resembled Napoleon, in the vastness of his conceptions as well as in some of his weaknesses. There seems some truth in the comparison, and it is quite possible, as we shall see, that the great French soldier had had some influence on the fortunes of Cecil Rhodes. His features indeed bore some resemblance to Napoleon's, but the face and figure were, if I may say so, of looser formation and not so closely knit. Perhaps the same remark may also apply to his genius and his habits of thought. But the comprehensive vision, the wide outlook, the genius for seeing below the surface of things, the vast organising power which not only took in all the elements of a great combination, but bent men and things to its achievement--these were characteristic of both. But there were great differences. Cecil Rhodes was no soldier, nor did he covet a soldier's methods. His connection with the Raid was an accident. He loved to take men, or "human beings," as he called them, with him, and by mesmeric persuasion to make them fellow-workers, sometimes, possibly, convenient tools. His appeal was not to the vested interests, but to the people. They were indeed his last line of defence when he was sore oppressed by the desertion of political and mercantile...
The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902
Author: Sir Lewis MichellSouth Africa, Greece, Rome
Author: Grant ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710081X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.
Rhodes
Author: Antony ThomasPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312169824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A biography of Africa's conqueror takes the reader into the life of Cecil Rhodes, an English patriot and racist who, by the age of thirty-four, had added a million square miles to Britain's empire and who set the stage for apartheid. 20,000 first printing.