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" ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. "
The Life of Edward White Benson: Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury - Page 338
by Arthur Christopher Benson - 1899
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A tale of a tub. The battle of the books [and essays

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...nature; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon...
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The Works, Volume 3

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...nature ; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon...
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A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which ...

Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...nature ; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...nature ; the difference is, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. 0 It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...nature ; the difference is, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...nature ; the difference is that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which ure sweetness and light.' " Now in the allegory preceding Temple figures as the bee ; and Swift...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1872 - 676 pages
...nature ; the difference ¡8, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax : thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." — Swift's Worla, 1870, vol. ip 128. JONATHAN BOUCHIER. COIN. —...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 79

Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...poison [such as are collected by modern authors or spiders] we have rather chose [tic] to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of thing«, which are sweetness and light." WALTSR W. SKKAT. REFERENCES то SHAKSPEARE AND CHAUCEH. —...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...nature ; the difference is, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books upon the...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1889 - 562 pages
...poison [such as are collected by modern authors or spiders] we have rather chose [tic] to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of thing?, which are sweetness and light." WALTER W. SKKAT. REFERENCES TO SHAKSPEARE AND CHAUCEK. —...
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