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Definition of Cecil Rhodes

1. Noun. British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902).

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Literary usage of Cecil Rhodes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Methodist Magazine (1900)
"Cecil Rhodes, PC Mr. Rhodes occupies no official position in South Africa. He ¡ч no soldier, neither is he intrusted with imy official or diplomatic ..."

2. Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw (1897)
"There is a good deal that is Napoleonic in Cecil Rhodes ; but his lot has fallen to him in ... Wherein then lies the essential greatness of Cecil Rhodes ? ..."

3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"THE Cecil Rhodes SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE UNITED STATES. IN considering the probable success of the scholarships at Oxford given to the United States by the late ..."

4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"These latter consider that South Africa consists of Table Mountain, the diamond mines, the Johannesburg gold fields, and Cecil Rhodes. ..."

5. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1909)
"To Cecil Rhodes, more than to any other man, belongs the bold idea of ... A Cecil Rhodes was the appointed instrument to preserve for appreciation ° . ..."

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