... referred to are those of Lydia, a seller of purple in the city of Thyatira, of the jailer, in the same city, and of Cornelius, the centurion, of Cæsarea. Instances of this kind arenot to be considered ... from one end of its shade to the other in one hundred years.As plenty of water is one of the greatest additions to the pleasantness of any place, the Koran often speaks of the rivers of paradise ... describing the greatness of the assembly, the profusion of the offerings, and the many strangepeculiarities of the worship, he observes, "The whole produced on my mind sensations of the greatest...