subtilty

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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

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

And this is his greatest subtilty; because herein we have the deceitfull comfort of having done well, and can very hardly spie our errour because it is but an insensible omission, and no accusing act.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, 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

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