- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 167
- Full Text
- By this Exemplar I am taught
So by the example of the wise
How letters great and small are wrought May I true virtue learn to prize
- Listed on Page Number
- 276
- Sampler Worked By
- Lydia Wilkinson
- Date of Sampler
- 1817
- Place Sampler Made
- Pawtucket, RI
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 242
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Lydia Wilkinson completed this sampler at the age of 9.
It’s also listed as follows:
True Virtue
By this Exemplar I am taught
How letters great and small are wrought
So by the example of the wise
May I true virtue learn to prize. (Janie Appelbaum, 1895)
https://www.geocities.ws/mingo_marshall/Verses.html
The verse is discussed at this website :
https://books.google.com/books?id=XXkmAQAAIAAJ&q=%22by+this+exemplar+I+am+taught%22&dq=%22by+this+exemplar+I+am+taught%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEv_mCm6iIAxVyFjQIHd-HJ9UQ6AF6BAgIEAI
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine p. 204 published 1947