Look attentively at the duels and the hand-to-hand combats, how superior the Italians are in strength, dexterity, and
subtlety. But when it comes to armies they do not bear comparison, and this springs entirely from the insufficiency of the leaders, since those who are capable are not obedient, and each one seems to himself to know, there having never been any one so distinguished above the rest, either by valour or fortune, that others would yield to him.
A curious proof of the
subtlety of these Paul Ferroll books in the appeal they made to the imagination is the fact that I came to them fresh from 'Romolo,' and full of horror for myself in Tito; yet I sympathized throughout with Paul Ferroll, and was glad when he got away.
But in a matter like this,
subtlety appeals to
subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.
It was strength pitted against
subtlety, and the match was a merry one.
"You are an insolent fellow, and you have not looked," cried Mazarin, very angrily, "begone and wait my pleasure." Whilst saying these words, with perfectly Italian
subtlety he snatched the packet from the hands of Colbert, and re-entered his apartments.
His fingers seemed to have acquired a new and exquisite
subtlety and even a volition of their own.
Bring them up among honest country folks for freshness, send them to Italy for
subtlety, and then--not till then--let them come to London.
The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away, but the
subtlety with which the Rev.
Frau Professor Erlin called her establishment a family and not a pension; but it would have required the
subtlety of a metaphysician to find out exactly where the difference lay.
The
subtlety of Ikey's action becomes apparent upon recital of his subsequent move.
Spray, the Independent minister, had begun to preach political sermons, in which he distinguished with much
subtlety between his fervent belief in the right of the Catholics to the franchise and his fervent belief in their eternal perdition.
All this was accomplished with a
subtlety so perfect, that the minister, though he had constantly a dim perception of some evil influence watching over him, could never gain a knowledge of its actual nature.