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The reader is furnished below with examples from the Chinese, which 

 will perhaps be considered as answering to the above description of the 

 Hebrew — with this only difference, that the peculiar structure of the lan- 

 guage, of which we now treat, generally renders the parallelism much 

 more exact, and therefore much more striking and obvious — as it is usually 

 xvord Jor zcord, the one written opposite to the other. The first two lines 

 have a figurative reference to the perfection of a person's moral character. 



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Pih 2>eih, woo hea, ching che paou, 

 Tsing teen, puh yen, fa k'he heang. 



Sin taou Iwan she, woo she clmo, 

 Tsing tang koo tse, che sze pei. 



Mo hi'en te tsih, yuen ting seaou. 

 Pull yuen kea pin, hwo he wei. 



" The white stone, unfractured, ranks as most precious ; 

 The blue lily, unblemished, emits the finest fragrance. 



" The heart, when it is harassed, finds no place of rest ; 

 The mind, in the midst of bitterness, thinks only of grief. 



■' Be not discontented, though your land be narrow, and your garden small ; 

 Be not disturbed, though your family be poor, and your means contracted." 



