For Seneca says, nothing is more odious than subtilty when it is only subtilty.
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What presence of mind, what subtilty, what truth, in his replies!
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But thy eyes were too penetrating not to detect the subtilty.
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But this seems to me a subtilty that is not discoverable in nature.
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But in both these letters we see the subtilty and caution of the writers.
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Now in this latter attempt, the subtilty of his circumvention, hath indirectly obtained the former.
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There being no enquiry that does more entice with the probability and deceive with the subtilty.
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He says of the sorcerer that he is a child of the devil and full of subtilty.
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I see no reason to qualify this moderation as subtilty, which Mills has not scrupled to do.
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The man, being skilful in natural magick, did use all the artifices his subtilty could devise to imbecilitate the earl.
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Coppin was served with a warrant forbidding him to preach and subsequently imprisoned as a Ranter. He defended himself by writing, from Maidstone Prison, a pamphlet A Blow at the Serpent. Walter Rosewell responded with his own publication The serpents subtilty discovered.
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Rosewell, Walter (1656). The serpents subtilty discovered, or a true relation of what passed in the cathedrall church of Rochester, between divers ministers and Richard Coppin : to prevent credulity to the false representation of the said discourse published by the said R. Coppin from Maidstone goale. Printed by A.M. for Jos. Cranford, at the Kings Head in St Pauls Church-yard.
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In gratitude Vortigern increased the rewards he had promised to the brothers. Hengist was given "large possessions of lands in Lindsey for the subsistence of himself and his fellow-soldiers." A "man of experience and subtilty," Hengist told Vortigern that his enemies assailed him from every quarter, and that his subjects wished to depose him and make Aurelius Ambrosius king.
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In The Farmer Refuted, Alexander Hamilton addresses directly the main person to whom he was writing in opposition with his first work, Bishop Samuel Seabury. Seabury wrote under the name "A. W. Farmer" (a pen name, and abbreviation for 'a Westchester farmer'). Calling the writing a less than imposed "labyrinth of subtilty," Hamilton once again rebuts Seabury's claim that the Congress in Philadelphia deserved to be condemned for conduct.
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Boswell p 28-9 We know Johnson respected Hailes's intellectual prowess as manuscripts of his Annals of Scotland were submitted, via Boswell, to Johnson for his literary opinion. Johnson claimed T never before read Scotch history with certainty' Allan, p 37 and wrote to Boswell calling them 'a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted ... without laboured splendour of language, or affected subtilty [sic] of conjectur. Sir David inherited the house in 1751. He had it remodelled and the stable block added in 1790 by James Craig.
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It can also mean a set text, a book that everyone in a group (for example, all students entering a university) are expected to read, so that they can have something in common. The Common Reader is used by Virginia Woolf as the title work of her 1925 essay collection. Plus a triple play – Virginia Woolf's title came from Dr. Johnson: "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be generally decided all claims to poetical honours." In British English, "common" holds levels of connotation.
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He was also an active member of the discussion circles of the journal The Freewoman, which was published between 1911–1912. Bedborough published three books of aphorisms, Narcotics and a Few Stimulants, Vacant Chaff Well Meant for Grain and Subtilty to the Simple and one book of Epigrams, Vulgar Fractions. In 1914, Bedborough published Stories from the Children's Realm, a children's story book with animal rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarian themes; it contained several illustrations by L. A. Hayter, former illustrator and contributor to The Children's Realm. Bedborough published The Atheist in 1919, a poem which advocated for atheism and was critical of the killing of animals for human consumption; it was dedicated to Anatole France.
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