The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.

I gave, thou ſay'ſt, th' example, / I led the way;

He muscled his way through the crowd.

Finesse is not exactly subtlety; we draw a person into a snare with finesse; we escape from it with subtlety. We act with finesse, and we play a subtle trick. Distrust is inspired by an unsparing use of finesse; yet we almost always deceive ourselves if we too generally suspect it.