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    Dr Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), in gratitude for his help with geological work on the field. The scant remnants of Purchas Hill lie on what is largely...
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    Liverpool. While studying, Purchas heard about possible missionary work in New Zealand from Bishop George Selwyn. In October 1844, Purchas travelled to New Zealand...
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    landmark. Round Hill School, founded 1823 Purchas 1625, pp. IV:1648–49 reprinted in Archer 1843, p. 76 and Levermore 1912, p. 42. Purchas 1625, p. IV:1649...
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    Mataoho"), including Māngere Lagoon, Waitomokia, Crater Hill, Kohuora, Pukaki Lagoon and Robertson Hill. Many of the Māori language names of volcanic features...
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    Lineage of Genghis Khan. In 1614, the English clergyman Samuel Purchas published Purchas his Pilgrimes – or Relations of the world and the Religions observed...
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  • Albert Purchas (1825 – 1909) was a prominent 19th century architect and surveyor in Melbourne, Australia. Albert Purchas was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire...
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    the extended preface narrative, Coleridge was reading Purchas his Pilgrimes by Samuel Purchas, and fell asleep after reading about Kublai Khan. Then...
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    confession to Purchas, as they are known to have spoken together. Smith's own writings, however, never mention the confession, leaving Purchas' claim to stand...
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    Love and Hate in Jamestown. New York: Vintage, 2003. Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes. 1625. Repr. Glasgow: James MacLehose...
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    in Levermore 1912, p. I:31. Purchas 1625, p. IV:1647 reprinted in Archer 1843, p. 72 and Levermore 1912, p. I:43. Purchas 1625, p. IV:1647 reprinted in...
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  • Salisbury 1982, p. 89. Purchas 1625, pp. IV:1654–55 reprinted in Burrage 1906, pp. 346–47 and Levermore 1912, pp. I:63–63. Purchas 1625, p. 1655 reprinted...
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    Passage to Cathay and India, (1849) xiv-xv, xx Purchas, Samuel (1905). Hakluytus Posthumus Or Purchas His Pilgrimes. Vol. 2. Glasgow: James MacLehose...
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    del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, a corruption of the original Spanish name "Austrialia...
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  • works on Ethiopia during this period mentioned the order; Samuel Purchas in his 1613 Purchas, His Pilgrimage wrote of the "monastical knights of the military...
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    Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as...
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    Hugh, ed. (1911). "Purchas, Samuel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 659. "Purchas, Samuel (PRCS594S)"....
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  • 446 1 14 January 1993 London Tony Blair, Virginia Bottomley, Patience Purchas, David Steel [148] 447 2 21 January 1993 Birmingham David Blunkett, Jean...
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    of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1321-6. Purchas, Samuel, ed. (1625). Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes. Contayning a history of the world...
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    [1625]. "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage, from the 1625 Edition of Purchas His Pilgrimes". The New York Times. Translated by Brea Barthel. p. 16....
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  • through his diligence and perseverance. In printing his journals, Samuel Purchas wrote of him as a "learned-unlearned Mariner and Mathematician... wanting...
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    "Rodney Scout Reservation". "Welcome". New England Base Camp in the Blue Hills near Boston. "The Northern NeXus Of Adventure". "Boy Scouts closing Camp...
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    posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others', by Samuel Purchas; https://archive...
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    14, 2013. (in Latin) Ricci, Matteo & al. Samuel Purchas (trans.) in Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. XII, p. 305 Archived September...
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    Yarra River, was built in 1892 and was perhaps intended by architect Guyon Purchas to be his own home. However, it was tenanted during the 1890s depression...
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    posthumus"". archive.org. Retrieved 17 August 2017. Purchas, Samuel (1906). Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World...
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    Governors out of Siberia". Published as Chapter XI in: Samuel Purchas, Haklutyus Posthumus (or, Purchas His Pilgrimes), vol. XIV, p. 280. 1625. Full Text on archive...
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    Massachusetts Historical Society. 4. 4: 474–87. Purchas, Samuel, ed. (1625). Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes. Contayning a history of the world...
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  • Rev. John Purchas—formerly one of his own curates—was of greater national significance because of the controversial ritualist practices Purchas brought...
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    Ananas comosus, where comosus 'tufted' refers to the stem of the plant. Purchas, writing in English in 1613, referred to the fruit as Ananas, but the Oxford...
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  • Juet, Robert (1625). "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage" (PDF). Purchas His Pilgrimes. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (3/2/1934...
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