Beilby Porteus
Beilby Porteus
Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and of London was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 May 1731
action bad-thoughts bad-actions
Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.
exercise blessing joy
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.
war ten
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
love-is divine description
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
god men millions
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
hero murder millions
One murder makes a villian, millions a hero
life way tenors
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
life way tenors
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
hero numbers murder
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
men heaven lessons
But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.