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 Sedding, John D.

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

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

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

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