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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

But we vse ye ensample ād likenesse to strength the faith of the   weake.

From The prophete Ionas with an introduccion before teachinge to vnderstonde him and the right vse also of all the scripture/ and why it was written/ and what is therin to be sought/ and shewenge wherewith the scripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it/ can not vnderstonde it/ though he studie therin neuer so moch: and agayne with what keyes it is so opened/ that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man/ from the true sense and vnderstondynge therof. by William Tyndale

Schoolmasters, except religious and elementary, they may cease to be, perhaps; the pattern and ensample of purity and righteousness they will always remain.

From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

His memory shall continue to be praised and blessed, for he was beloved of God, an ensample to us all, and his own stern judge.

From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by J. P. Arthur

The moral of the old tale is clear—that all virtue without charity is nothing worth; and that of virtue without charity, the Stoic's cold renunciation is the chief type and ensample.

From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton