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    Samuel Purchas (c. 1577 – 1626) was an English Anglican cleric who published several volumes of reports by travellers to foreign countries. Purchas was...
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    Golden Lineage of Genghis Khan. In 1614, the English clergyman Samuel Purchas published Purchas his Pilgrimes – or Relations of the world and the Religions...
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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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  • (1823–1872), English Anglican priest Samuel Purchas (c. 1577 – 1626), English Anglican priest and writer Sir Francis Purchas (19 June 1919 – 9 September 2003)...
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    According again to Samuel Purchas, Hakluyt bought the Codex for 20 French francs. Some time after 1616 it was passed to Samuel Purchas, then to his son...
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    “Sarah versus Susan”, by Gregory Robinson, Robin R. Goodison Samuel Purchas (1575?–1626): Purchas His Pilgrimes, In Five Books “Decades of work will see a...
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    but Pocahontas had told Smith that "your countrymen lie too much." Samuel Purchas, a compiler of travel narratives, met Tomocomo at the home of "my good...
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    Kubla Khan (category Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
    145 Mays 2001 p. 511 Sisman 2006 p. 417 Perkins 2010 pp. 39–40 Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimes, the Fourth Book, chapter 13, page 415. digital version...
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    Judaica. Basel: Sebastianus Henricpetrus. pp. 36, 335, 649–654. Purchas, Samuel (1614). Purchas, His Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions...
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    punctuation, spelling and embellishments, but not pagination. Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. XIX (Glasgow:James Maclehose, 1906)...
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    Australia 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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    Veiga's account seems to have been received by Samuel Purchas, who has a close paraphrase in his Purchas His Pilgrims (1613/1626), "that the Earth had...
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    Another early reference to tea appears in the writings of trader Samuel Purchas in 1625. Purchas described how the Chinese consumed tea as "the powder of a...
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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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    skin". It first entered the English written record in a 1625 work by Samuel Purchas. The Inuit who speak Inuktitut use parkas and have various terms related...
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    was not, however, completely convincing for everybody in Europe yet. Samuel Purchas, who in 1625 published an English translation of Pantoja's letter and...
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  • D'Ambois – George Chapman Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages – Samuel Purchas 1614 Bartholomew Fair...
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    Australia del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, a variation of the original Spanish name "Austrialia...
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  • himself 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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    of Persia," Archived March 20, 2018, at the Wayback Machine in: Purchas, Samuel, Purchas His Pilgrimes (London, England: William Stansby, 1625), vol. 2...
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    Hugh, ed. (1911). "Purchas, Samuel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 659. "Purchas, Samuel (PRCS594S)". A Cambridge...
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    "school" at Sagres in English dates from the seventeenth century by Samuel Purchas, although Damião de Gois had already pointed to a similar idea in the...
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  • to Richard Hakluyt, who sold it on to Samuel Purchas. Purchas published an abbreviated version in his Purchas his Pilgrimes (1613) and a more complete...
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    Ramon Llull. Later dates center around the late 15th century, with Samuel Purchas claiming that it was adapted for marine navigation by Martin Behaim...
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    account of Queirós’ voyage and discoveries was published in English by Samuel Purchas in 1625 in Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iv,...
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    the English language during the Renaissance, as pæderastie (e.g. in Samuel Purchas' Pilgrimes), in the sense of sexual relations between men and boys....
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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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    the South Sea, through the northwest passage of Meta Incognita, in Samuel Purchas, Pilgrims, London, 1625, Vol III, page 849 Memoir, Historical and Political...
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    the head of Henry's legendary observatory and "school" at Sagres by Samuel Purchas, though the existence of the alleged school has long been discounted...
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    subsequently obtained a different map of China, famously published by Samuel Purchas. Robert Batchelor argues for a later date of around 1619, noting that...
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