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
This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,— That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
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
An ensample whiche proveth that horsemen with staves, cannot prevaile against footemen with Pikes, and what great advauntage the armed have, againste the unarmed.
From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
