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
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 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)
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 Behrend, Arthur C.
Did not Paul's exhortation to Timothy look toward this as well, when he besought him to "be an ensample in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity"?
From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.
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
