Beilby Porteus Quotes

1731–1809 United Kingdom

Rt Rev Beilby Porteus, DD, Bishop of Chester and London (May 8, 1731 – May 13, 1809) was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery.

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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

In sober state,
Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

Teach him how to live,
And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

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