. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints; . utto insinuate virtue by such indirect means, that the person may almost seemhis own instructor. Our three disputants all vanquished, because they wereall armed with docility, charity, and humility ; not like those vain combat-ants in the schools who love opinions, not for the sake of truth, but becausethey are their own, as St. Austin complains. In this happy company, thoughall were conquerors, yet no one prized higher his victory than Cecilius, whoovercame both pride and error: according to the maxim of a great man, Then we v
. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints; . utto insinuate virtue by such indirect means, that the person may almost seemhis own instructor. Our three disputants all vanquished, because they wereall armed with docility, charity, and humility ; not like those vain combat-ants in the schools who love opinions, not for the sake of truth, but becausethey are their own, as St. Austin complains. In this happy company, thoughall were conquerors, yet no one prized higher his victory than Cecilius, whoovercame both pride and error: according to the maxim of a great man, Then we vanquish when we are instructed. ST. CLOTILDIS OR CLOTILDA, QUEEN OF FRANCE, Was daughter of Chilperic, younger brother to Gondebald, the tyrannicalking of Burgundy, who put him, his wife, and the rest of his brothers, ex- * Non eloqiiimur mai;nH., sed vivimus, p. 252. t The best eiljtions of this dialogue of Minutius Felix aro tho«e of Leyilen, in 1552, in 4to.; of Cam-bridge, 1678; of London, 1711, 8vo. &c. Ablancoiirt has given a French tfanslation of i^ (DKd® ^TK^XilDffi o New York, D Sc J, Sadliex. June 3.] s. clotildis, queen. 483 cept one, to death, in order to usurp their dominions. In this massacre hespared Chilperics two fair daughters, then in their infancy. One of thembecame afterwards a nun; the other, named Clotildis, was brought up inher uncles court, and by a singular providence, was instructed in the Catho-lic religion, though she was educated in the midst of Arians. It was herhappiness in the true faith, to be inspired from the cradle with a contemptand disgust of a treacherous world, which sentiments she cherished and im-proved by the most fervent exercises of religion. Though she saw herselfsurrounded with all the charms of the world, and was from her infancy itsidol, yet her heart was proof against its seductions. She was adorned withthe assemblage of all virtues; and the reputation of her wit, beauty, meekness,modesty, and piety, made her the adorati
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