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“Such a subtility is a dear proof of the falshood, as the contrary simplicity of the truth, of any system.”
“+ The fourth quality is "subtility", by which the body becomes subject to the absolute dominion of the soul.”
“The movie has been out in France for quite a few months and even if the story is lacking any subtility (but who cares) you have to admit that the action delivers big time!”
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“Yeah, my translation back into English might not pick up all the subtility of the phrase.”
“I went, and by smooth words, and a piece of money, got him to come into the house with me; where, in the presence of divers people, I demanded of him several astrological questions, which he answered with great subtility, and through all his discourse carried it with a cunning much beyond his years, which seemed not to exceed ten or eleven.”
“I was not very much pleased at this account of Hume, for I had just been reading, with infinite relish, that completest of all metaphysical choke-pears, his Treatise on Human Nature, to which the Essays, in point of scholastic subtility and close reasoning are mere elegant trifling, light summer reading.”
“If you want to create a tool that is widely used, implementing categories, keywords and tags will confuse most users, and even most of your readers surely don't grasp the subtility of the differences between your categories, your keywords and your tags.”
“Wherein is displayed, the apparant folly of jealousie: And the subtility of some religious carnall minded men, to beguile silly and simple maried men”
“The politician will acquire greater foresight and subtility, in the subdividing and balancing of power; the lawyer more method and finer principles in his reasonings; and the general more regularity in his discipline, and more caution in his plans and operations.”
“The separation of it often requires great attention, accuracy, and subtility.”
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