subtilty
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No artist is disposed to apologise for the presence of subtilty in Art, nor I for the subtle device of Bacon's garden.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding
What man can pause and charge this senseless dust With fraud, or subtilty, or aught unjust?
From Curious Epitaphs by Various
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
A gentle, tender spirit, and a judgment equally free from paradox, exaggeration, and excessive subtilty, are the characteristics of all he wrote.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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 Pierre Bayle
You do yet taste Some subtilties o’ the isle, that will not let you V. 1.
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
Perhaps, by one of love's subtilties, she has chosen to bid him farewell under the very hawthorn-tree where he had first called her his.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
And this in spite of Suárez, whose formal subtilties do not merit the name of philosophy.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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 David Hume
All the efforts to substantiate consciousness, making it independent of extension—remember that Descartes opposed thought to extension—are but sophistical subtilties intended to establish the rationality of faith in the immortality of the soul.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
