self-example

Unlike many doctrinists, he practised his own rules: he was a self-example of his own precepts, and his book was the rule of his own life; or, as Walton more beautifully explains it "his behaviour towards God and man may be said to be a practical comment on the holy rules set down in that useful book."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 533, February 11, 1832 Various

The free and fearless Indian was particularly difficult to subdue; but steady, determined perseverance, and bold measures, aided by a rigid self-example, made them as clay in his hand, and has finally reduced them to their present admirable condition.

Townsend Chapter 6 1839

Oh, I should have mentioned in my self-example: I still have that old code, dozens of other attack scripts I’ve written, and a library of thousands of various forms of malicious code.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Looking for Arguments for Limited-Use Exceptions to Normal Fourth Amendment Rules: 2007