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Beilby Porteus (1731 – 1809)


Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist.
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Beilby Porteus
One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
Porteus
In sober state,
Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.




Porteus Beilby quotes
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Porteus Beilby
Teach him how to live,
And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.
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