Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Publishers' Note
- The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.,
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- A Note touching the Dutch
- The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the First Volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes
- CHAP. I A Large Treatise of King Salomons Navie sent from Eziongeber to Ophir: Wherein besides the Typicall Mysteries briefly unvailed, and many Morall speculations observed; the Voyage is largely discussed out of Divine, Ecclesiasticall and Humane Testimonies: Intended as an historicall Preface to the Histories following.
- CHAP. II Mans life a Pilgrimage. The Peregrinations of Christ, and the first Encompassing the habitable or then inhabited World by the holy Apostles and first Planters of the Gospell
- CHAP. III Of divers other principall Voyages, and Peregrinations mentioned in holy Scripture. Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations
- CHAP. IIII Fabulous Antiquities of the Peregrinations and Navigations of Bacchus, Osiris, Hercules, the Argonauts, Cadmus, the Græcian Navie to Troy, Menelaus, Ulysses, Æneas, and others
- CHAP. V A briefe recitall of the famous expeditions mentioned in ancient Histories, of the Assyrians, Egyptians, Scythians, Ethiopians, Persians, and others
- CHAP. VI The travels of the antient Philosophers and learned men briefly mentioned
- CHAP. VII Phœnician Voyages, and especially that of Hanno, a Carthaginian Captaine
- CHAP. VIII Iambulus his Navigation to Arabia, and Ethiopia, and thence to a strange Iland, from whence he sayled to Palimbothra in India
- CHAP. IX Great Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related
- CHAP. X The travels of Musæus, Thebæus, and others mentioned by Saint Ambrose ; of others also mentioned in the Ecclesiasticall Histories of Eusebius, Ruffinus, Socrates, and Sozomen
- CHAP. XI A briefe and generall consideration of Europe
- CHAP. XII Enquiries of Languages by Edw. Brerewood, lately professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledge
- CHAP. XIII Master Brerewoods Enquiries of the Religions professed in the World: Of Christians, Mahumetans, Jewes, and Idolaters; with other Philosophicall speculations, and divers Annotations added
- CHAP. XIIII Relations of divers Travellers, touching the diversities of Christian Rites and Tenents in divers parts of the World
- CHAP. XV Collections out of Peter Stroza, Secretarie to Pope Paul the Fifth, his Treatise of the Opinions of the Chaldæans, touching the Patriarke of Babylon, and the Nestorians in Asia
- CHAP. XVI A briefe Survey of the Ecclesiasticall Politie ancient and moderne, or of the severall Patriarchs, Archbishops and Bishops Sees thorow the Christian world: also of the Jesuites Colledges and numbers, and of other Monasticall Orders
CHAP. III - Of divers other principall Voyages, and Peregrinations mentioned in holy Scripture. Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations
from The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the First Volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Publishers' Note
- The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.,
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- A Note touching the Dutch
- The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the First Volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes
- CHAP. I A Large Treatise of King Salomons Navie sent from Eziongeber to Ophir: Wherein besides the Typicall Mysteries briefly unvailed, and many Morall speculations observed; the Voyage is largely discussed out of Divine, Ecclesiasticall and Humane Testimonies: Intended as an historicall Preface to the Histories following.
- CHAP. II Mans life a Pilgrimage. The Peregrinations of Christ, and the first Encompassing the habitable or then inhabited World by the holy Apostles and first Planters of the Gospell
- CHAP. III Of divers other principall Voyages, and Peregrinations mentioned in holy Scripture. Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations
- CHAP. IIII Fabulous Antiquities of the Peregrinations and Navigations of Bacchus, Osiris, Hercules, the Argonauts, Cadmus, the Græcian Navie to Troy, Menelaus, Ulysses, Æneas, and others
- CHAP. V A briefe recitall of the famous expeditions mentioned in ancient Histories, of the Assyrians, Egyptians, Scythians, Ethiopians, Persians, and others
- CHAP. VI The travels of the antient Philosophers and learned men briefly mentioned
- CHAP. VII Phœnician Voyages, and especially that of Hanno, a Carthaginian Captaine
- CHAP. VIII Iambulus his Navigation to Arabia, and Ethiopia, and thence to a strange Iland, from whence he sayled to Palimbothra in India
- CHAP. IX Great Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related
- CHAP. X The travels of Musæus, Thebæus, and others mentioned by Saint Ambrose ; of others also mentioned in the Ecclesiasticall Histories of Eusebius, Ruffinus, Socrates, and Sozomen
- CHAP. XI A briefe and generall consideration of Europe
- CHAP. XII Enquiries of Languages by Edw. Brerewood, lately professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledge
- CHAP. XIII Master Brerewoods Enquiries of the Religions professed in the World: Of Christians, Mahumetans, Jewes, and Idolaters; with other Philosophicall speculations, and divers Annotations added
- CHAP. XIIII Relations of divers Travellers, touching the diversities of Christian Rites and Tenents in divers parts of the World
- CHAP. XV Collections out of Peter Stroza, Secretarie to Pope Paul the Fifth, his Treatise of the Opinions of the Chaldæans, touching the Patriarke of Babylon, and the Nestorians in Asia
- CHAP. XVI A briefe Survey of the Ecclesiasticall Politie ancient and moderne, or of the severall Patriarchs, Archbishops and Bishops Sees thorow the Christian world: also of the Jesuites Colledges and numbers, and of other Monasticall Orders
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- Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his PilgrimesContayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, pp. 179 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014