Beilby Porteus

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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"He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over."

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

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"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."

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

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