or military achievements, study of nature, knowledge ofdistant shores, or cunning in the mysteries of trade, or arts ofconversation. egeld, which was the mulct for a murder, ordained by thelaws to be paid to the relations of the persons deceased. The authorof her life relates many miracles wrought at the tomb, or by theintercession of this holy virgin and widow. He also checked the pride and wickedobstinacy of the heretics, telling them {458} that they might discernthe true church by the multitude of its martyrs.
Patrick had often entertained the company on the infinite power of God:they therefore asked him, why he did not pray for relief. Herelated to them the examples of many monks, who, by suffering theirhearts to be secretly corrupted by vanity, at last fell Jor tin, after taking much pains on this subject, is obliged to confess (vol. Sincerely to esteemourselves baser and more unworthy than every one, even the greatestsinners.
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