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Virtue and wit, with science join’d Refine the manners, form the mind And when with industry they meet The female character’s complete.

Full Text
Virtue and wit, with science join’d Refine the manners, form the mind And when with industry they meet The female character’s complete.
Listed on Page Number
346
Sampler Worked By
Sophia Catherine Bier
Date of Sampler
1810
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
128
Author/Publication/Country/Date
S. “For the Balance,” The Balance Columbian and Repository, Edited by Harry Croswell, Hudson, NY, May 28, 1805, Vol. 4, Iss. 22, p. 176.
Notes
See also Verse #732, p. 3476. https://archive.org/details/sim_balance-and-state-journal_1805-05-28_4_22 These lines are subtitled, “For a Lady’s sampler.” The author’s name, given only by an initial S., may be Ezra Sampson a retired Congregational minister who co-edited The Balance and Columbian Repository with Harry Croswell.