All your ingenious systems, all your mysteries, all the subtilties which ye have invented, are they capable of reconciling that discordant assemblage of amiable and unamiable qualities, with which ye have dressed up your figments?
The rough common sense of our humblest citizen disperses the philosopher's subtilties of logic with some such decisive sentence as that with which Dr.
We are amazed that intellectual giants, equal to the old Greeks in acuteness and logical powers, could waste their time on the frivolous questions and dialectical subtilties to which they devoted their mighty powers.
But what shall he doe, if he be urged with sophisticall subtiltiesabout a Sillogisme?
It is neither grammaticall subtilties nor logicall quiddities, nor the wittie contexture of choice words or arguments and syllogismes, that will serve my turne.
We are not seeking out idle subtilties when we find fault with them for teaching that we merit eternal life by works, while that faith is omitted which apprehends Christ as Mediator.
It is quite evident that such subtilties have originated in the schools, not in the council of the Emperor.
The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
An exact analysis of value overturns this scaffolding of [p226] subtilties intended to prop up a monstrous assimilation of Property with Spoliation.
It is not, then, to indulge an unhappy love for subtilties that I enter on this delicate subject.
He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal into the subtilties of parables.
Unhappily, mankind seemed doomed never to find the true road without going a long way round; thus the intellect, taking the very worst way of all, went in pursuit of subtilties and cavils, forsaking the beaten track of reason and good sense.
We have already seen that the intellectual development was religious; consequently, even when it deviated from the right path, it still retained this character, and the oddest subtilties were applied to mysteries the most sublime.
In his answers he is clear and precise; in repartee, quick and penetrating; and without dealing in the subtilties of the schools, he displays wonderful tact in disentangling truth from error, sound reason from artifice and fraud.
And this in spite of Suárez, whose formal subtilties do not merit the name of philosophy.
It is true, he is occasionally betrayed by verbal subtilties and other affectations of the age; [26] but even his liveliest sallies are apt to be seasoned with a moral, or sharpened by a satiric sentiment.
It was such subtilties as these, entricadas razones, as Cervantes calls them, that addled the brains of poor Don Quixote.
We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks.
But thou art a mere sailor, my Talbot, and these subtilties of policy are not for thee.
We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks.
I need not mention the variations, which all the rules of property receive from the finer turns and connexions of the imagination, and from the subtilties and abstractions of law- topics and reasonings.
The rites of the Pantheon had passed into her worship, the subtilties of the Academy into her creed.
The casuistical subtilties which occupied the attention of the keenest spirits of his age had, it should seem, no attractions for him.
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