ensample
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Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson: To drawen folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this way his bisy-nesse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canterbury Tales": "'This noble ensample unto his scheep he gaf That first he wroughte and after that he taughte.'
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
The viij day tok Jhesu hys name, That saved mankynd fro syn and shame, And circumsysed was for no blame, But for ensample of meknesse.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
Spenser has among other passages And of fair Britomart ensample take, That was as true in love as turtle to her make.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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