Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

by Unknown

[[425]]

BEILBY PORTEUS.  1731-1808.

In sober state,

Through the sequestered vale of rural life,

The venerable patriarch guileless held

The tenor of his way.[425:1]

Death. Line 108.

One murder made a villain,

Millions a hero. Princes were privileged

To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.[425:2]