MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Stature of a Great Man or the English Colossus cph.3b03411.jpg The Colossus at Rhodes a statue of the Sun 70 Cubits high placed at the Mouth of the Harbour; one Man could not grasp its Thumb with both his Arms Its thighs stretch'd out ...
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Keywords: The Stature of a Great Man or the English Colossus cph.3b03411.jpg The Colossus at Rhodes a statue of the Sun 70 Cubits high placed at the Mouth of the Harbour; one Man could not grasp its Thumb with both his Arms Its thighs stretch'd out to such a Distance that a large Ship Sailing might easily pass “ into the Port betwixt them It was Twelve Years a makeing cost 300 Talents a Rhodian Talent is worth 322 Pounds 18 shillings 4 Pence in English Money It stood 50 Years at last was thrown down in an Earth-quake And from this Colossus the People of Rhodes were named Colossenses every Statue since of an unused Magnitude is call'd Colossus </blockquote> LOC-image cph 3b03411 author 1740 No known restrictions on publication Robert Walpole 1740 engravings 1740s cartoons Caricatures of men People depicted as the Colossus of Rhodes PD-old-100
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