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And if the pressure of the aether, or any subtiler matter than the air, may unite, and hold fast together, the parts of a particle of air, as well as other bodies, yet it cannot make bonds for itself, and hold together the parts that make up every the least corpuscle of that materia subtilis.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

The heavens change by a subtiler movement than the precession of the equinoxes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

The widest range of the thought, its more delicate shades and subtiler connections, often depend in great part upon the peculiar forms of the language in which they are first clothed; and by a strictly literal translation the scope of the thought is narrowed, its finer lines obscured, and that which is of more importance than all else, the fitness of the expression, is altogether lost.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

That Supreme Soul which is Unborn and which is the essence of nectar, that is seen by high-souled Brahmanas endued with intelligence and wisdom and conversant with the Vedas, is subtiler than what is subtile and greater than what is great.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Something keener than philosophy, subtiler than Epicurus, pricked Fred, as Minnie vanished into the cloud of snowflakes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

The karana body is a subtiler form of existence than the

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

She made a little pause, -- and the Doctor stood before her as humbly as if he had not weighed and measured the universe; because he knew, that, though he might weigh the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance, yet it was a far subtiler power which must possess him of one small woman's heart.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

No, his temperament needed a subtiler atmosphere than this, rarer essence than mere brutal freedom.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

What if, through communication with subtiler organisms than my own, I could reach at a single bound the goal, which perhaps a life of agonizing mental toil would never enable me to attain?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Or a-flicker the subtiler essences polar that whirl

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