subtilty
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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
I must note here the subtilty of this retreat.
From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood
Deliver me from the combined strength of those, who have so much of the Serpents subtilty, that they forget the Doves Innocency.
From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by Charles I, King of England
Garnet made a long defence at the bar; and on the question of equivocation he defended himself with much subtilty.
From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Lathbury, Thomas
The adoption of this ingenious device to avoid compliance with unnatural obligations, affords an instance of the singular duplicity into which the subtilty of pious craft may betray human nature.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John
But, if their doctrine be divested of those subtilties, and expressed in plain language, it will be found that nothing in what our author, with other spiritualists, calls mystical theology, contradicts common sense.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
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
Conversation is only in part made of words, its subtilties are largely composed of touch and silence.
From People of the Whirlpool by Wright, Mabel Osgood
Are they bad spirits, or deceitful men, impostors and charlatans, who, by the subtilties of their art, make the ignorant believe that certain natural effects are produced by supernatural causes?
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry
By the subtilties of dialectic quibbling, he had attempted to prove that "change" meant "permanence," and "motion" meant "rest."
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
