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But the fineness, the subtilty, the changefulness of line, are endlessly charming; they may have other uses, but if they had been made for pure beauty it would be use enough.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

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

Though now his fortune was low, yet he got another ship with craft and subtilty, and in it twenty-one men.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

But there is a variety and subtilty in the Anglo-Saxon measure which is not found in the Middle English, and which is much more definitely under metrical rules.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker

The question of whence the game is taken, is a subtilty too nice for their comprehension.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

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

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 Rufus Matthew Jones

On the dangerous pretext of equity, they eluded the law by various subtilties or fictions; and thus, without being endued with legislative authority, they abrogated ancient enactments according to caprice.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop

It was a great contrast to the subtilties of analysis, the philosophic strainings of which I had seen too much.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller

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 George McCready Price