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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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  • Purchas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francis Purchas (1919–2003), English judge Guyon Purchas (1862–1940), Australian architect...
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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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    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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    “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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    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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    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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    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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