BPBeilby Porteus

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Beilby Porteus

Life dates: 1731 AD — 1808 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1769 AD

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

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02c. 1769 AD

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

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03c. 1769 AD

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

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04c. 1769 AD

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

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05c. 1769 AD

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

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