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...pure and the beautiful. " A traveler, in passing through a country in Persia, chanced to take iuto his hand a piece of clay which lay by the way-side ; and, to his surprise, he found Ц to exhale the most delightful fragrance: ' Thou art but a poor piece of clay/ said he, ' au unsightly,...

...to in eastern literature. Here is one instance : " A traveller, one day, walking through a district in Persia, chanced to take into his hand a piece of...lay by the wayside, and to his surprise he found it exhaled the most delightful fragrance. ' Thou art but a poor piece of clay,' he said ; ' yet how fragrant...

...this glorious garment. Ver. 16. Clay made fragrant by the rote. A traveller in passing through the country in Persia chanced to take into his hand a...wayside, and to his surprise he found it to exhale a most delightful fragrance. Thou art but a poor piece of clay, said he ; an unsightly, unattractive,...

...A traveller in passing through the country in Persia chanced to take into nis hand a piece of clny which lay by the wayside, and to his surprise he found it to exhale a most delightful fragrance. Thou art but a poor piece of clay, said he ; an unsightly, unattractive,...

...form a symbolical embodiment of the refining influences of the pure and the beautiful. " A traveler, in passing through a country in Persia, chanced to...delightful fragrance: * Thou art but a poor piece of clay/ eaid he, ' an unsightly, unattractive, poor piece of clay ; yet how fragrant art thou I how refreshing...