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subtilties

n. (plural of subtilty English)

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It is remarkable that the moral decisions of the JESUITS and other relaxed casuists, were commonly formed in prosecution of some such subtilties of reasoning as are here pointed out, and proceed as much from the habit of scholastic refinement as from any corruption of the heart, if we may follow the authority of Mons.

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 lawtopics and reasonings.

The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above.