His penetrating intellect had mastered the subtleties of the system of Chrysippus, but they seldom appear in his works, at least without, apology.
In England there is no room for such subtleties.
All had to be simplified and disengaged from technical subtleties.
They not only introduced him to the subtleties of Italian diplomacy, but'also extended his observation over races very different from the Italians.
It rested on a mass of legal assumptions and subtleties, fallacious indeed, but ingenious, and, as the result proved, effective.
