subtilty
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On these and on many other points of scholastic philosophy the Seraphic Doctor exhibits a combination of subtilty and moderation which makes his works peculiarly valuable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
I, Wisdom, have made subtilty my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
What presence of mind, what subtilty, what truth, in his replies!
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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
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
As I am a lofty princess, so my father is A lofty king, accomplished in all kingly subtilties, 20 Holding in his strong right hand world-kingdoms' balances.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Besides I neuer trusted them but vpon good ground, as one that had discouered a thousand of their crafts and subtilties, aswell by experience as by reading of the histories of late yeres.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard
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
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
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 Dunlop, John
