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    lutely evils , we have abundant reason to repose in that perfect wisdofri and goodness which direct all its dispensations , that these things will finally work out a far greater good , and that they will never be allowed to proceed

    further than is necessary for the accomplishment of the most gracrous and benevolent purposes . V . N .

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    Origin of a Passage in Bishop Porteus ' s Prize Poem . June 29 , 1814 . Sir , The following lines from the late

    Bishop Porteus ' s Seatonian Prize Poem on Death ^ you will recollect as often quoted , especially during the last tvventv years of war :

    One murder made a villain . Millions a hero , —princes were pri » vileg'd To kill , and numbers sanctified the

    crime . Ah ! why will'kings forget that they are men ! And men that they are brethren ? Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the

    ties Of nature , that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love . I am not aware that the original of the thought here so finely amplified has ever been conjectured . The poet seems to have been indebted to the following sentence

    in a piece De gratia Dei ^ by Cyprian , Bishop of Carthage in the 3 d century . Madet Orbis mutuo sanguine , tt homicidium , cum admit tunt siwguli , crimen

    est ; virtus vocatur , cum publice gkritusm I quote this passage from the preface to a publication in \ 7 \ 6 , entitled , * St . Cyprian ' s Discourse

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    to Donatus , done into English Metre . " At p . 13 , it is thus introduced : ' * A Description of the Pagan Age . War . See \ how the globe beneath oppression

    grieves , Seas-filPd with pirates , and the roads with thieves ; Contending armies o ' er the fields are spread , Imbrued with blood and cover'd with the dead .

    Slaughter , and horror , every where abounds For widen ed empires or disputed crowns . Murder , when one commits it , is a crime , But crowds add sanction , merit and esteem .

    The poor offender is to judgment led , While the successful villain , that can tread On regal purple and insult the laws , Is crown ed with diadems and loud

    applause , And to impunity the best pretence Is not the sacred plea of innocence , But some extravagant and vast of fence . "

    The author of this Metrical Version describes himself in the title-page as " W— T—in the Marshalsea , " and in his preface says he is a Forkshire-man *" He appears to have then arrived at " sixty years " and professes to have written to 6 € divert his

    confinement , and for subsistence amidst the vast expences of a jayl . " OTIOSUS .

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    Phrase "for ever /' Sir , There is little necessity for your correspondents puzzling your printer with their " Mom , ' as the Greek it seems is now to be englishedL In all languages , I believe , phrases signi f ying dura-

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    464 Bp . Porteus ' s Prize Poem . —Phrase u for ever . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/16/