subtilty
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And yet one last observation I would like to make, remembering Bacon's subtilty, and how his every utterance is the sum of matured analytical thought.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.
The Apostle recognises, beyond the subtilty of Jacob and behind the blessing of Isaac, the Divine retribution.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles
Do you appreciate the subtilty of the compliment?
From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester
Many of their more ancient philosophical works were composed in metre, though they possess productions of a later period, which display the highest logical subtilty and analysis.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
No refinements in the doctrine of natural allegiance, although cxxxix their theoretical soundness might equal their subtilty, would be of the least avail here.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel
Professors, most of them ecclesiastics, lectured on all the foolish subtilties of the learning of the day to crowds of students collected from every quarter of Europe.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce
We all went in, and there they made us goodly cheer with diverse subtilties, as comfits and march-panes and sweet wines.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
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 Fuller, Arthur B.
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
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 Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
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