Charles Lamb by Walter Jerrold
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And hungered after Nature, many a year,
In the great City pent, winning thy way With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain And strange calamity! ] The Theses, as given in the letter to Coleridge, are as follows: Theses Quædam Theologicæ. First, Whether God loves a lying angel better than a true man? Second, Whether the Archangel Uriel could affirm an untruth? and if he could, whether he would? Third, Whether honesty be an angelic virtue, or not rather to be reckoned among those qualities which the school men term _virtutes minus splendidæ_? Fourth, Whether the higher order of Seraphim illuminati ever sneer? Fifth, Whether pure intelligences can love? Sixth, Whether the Seraphim ardentes do not manifest their virtues by the way of vision and theory; and whether practice be not a sub-celestial and merely human virtue? Seventh, Whether the vision beatific be anything more or |
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