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Serenus in the purest antiquity, yet being added in the transcendent degree to the word Emperour, the highest denomination that a Prince is capable of, it becomes of the same value.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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The Emperour is a great marchant himselfe of waxe and sables, which with good foresight may bee procured to their hands: as for other commodities there are little or none in Moscovia, besides those aboue rehearsed: if there bee other, it is brought thither by the Turkes, who will be daintie to buy our clothes considering the charges of cariage ouer land.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And this word Otesara his maiesties interpreters haue of late dayes interpreted to be Emperour, so that now hee is called Emperour and great Duke of all Russia, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To doubt the wurst is still the wise mans sheeld, that armes him safely, but the worlde knowes this, the Emperour is a man of royall faith.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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The Emperour is a great marchant himselfe of waxe and sables, which with good foresight may bee procured to their hands: as for other commodities there are little or none in Moscovia, besides those aboue rehearsed: if there bee other, it is brought thither by the Turkes, who will be daintie to buy our clothes considering the charges of cariage ouer land.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And this word Otesara his maiesties interpreters haue of late dayes interpreted to be Emperour, so that now hee is called Emperour and great Duke of all Russia, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Peter G. Phialas, "The Sources of Massinger's Emperour of the East" source study; 17th c.
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Peter G. Phialas, "The Sources of Massinger's Emperour of the East" source study; 17th c.
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And I saide, the Emperour, if he could inioy his owne dominions in quiet.
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The foresaid Chingis, who was the first great Can or Emperour of the
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