subtilty

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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

Rarity is the contrary of density; it denotes the thinness and subtilty of bodies: thus you would say that mercury or quicksilver was a very dense fluid; ether, a very rare one.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.

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

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

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