subtilty
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Without vain subtilty, there is a real distinction between free will and spontaneous liberty.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
No refinements in the doctrine of natural allegiance, although cxxxix their theoretical soundness might equal their subtilty, would be of the least avail here.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel
He has not much imagination, nor remarkable subtilty in reasoning; but if he does not dazzle, he does not bore: he is too much the man of the world for that.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Lowell's best prose—in "Fireside Travels," for example—has similar qualities, and adds to them a surprising delicacy of wit and subtilty of phrase, while it has less movement and less of rhythmical emphasis.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
His faith did not busy itself about fine notions, subtilties, and curiosities, but it was firmly set and fixed in an experience of the mercy and goodness of God, seen in Jesus Christ.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew
The protoplasm in the brain of a bird is the same as that in its toes; and no metaphysical subtilties about heredity have ever explained why the one does a different work from the other.
From Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation by Price, George McCready
Faith my sweet Lady, I have caught you now, maugre your subtilties, and fine devices, be coy again now.
From The Scornful Lady by Fletcher, John
She was not deterred by fallacious subtilties, deducted from pretended conventions, out of age and opportunity, to hinder her laudable and patriotic course.
From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges
Those numberless productions with which the press then abounded; the cant of the pulpit, the declamations of party, the subtilties of theology, all these have long ago sunk in silence and oblivion.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
