- Full Text
- Vain are the hopes of those who think to gain
This noble treasure without taking pains
Youth is the time for progress in all arts
Then use your youth to gain the noblest parts.
- Listed on Page Number
- 267
- Sampler Worked By
- Loann Smith
- Date of Sampler
- 1785
- Place Sampler Made
- Providence RI (stitched image of building identified as University Hall at Brown University
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 75
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Fisher, George. “The American Instructor: or Young Man’s Best Companion”, England 1727.
- Notes
- Verse included in additional samplers:
Frances Jones, 1789, Providence RI, p 57;
Cynthia Pond, 1816 , Burlington CT p. 210
Sarah Hazard Peabody, c1765, n.p. p 67.
Link to a later publication (1792) see p. 46
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