Checking immoderate commendation, or praise. «Nullum ego sum nuinen, quid me immortalibus æquas?» I am a mere human being, with all the follies and failings incident to them, why do ye then raise me to the rank of the gods, may be said by any one, finding himself treated with too much homage and adulation.

"You have hit the matter to a hair," or "the nail on the head," that is, you are perfectly right in your conjecture.

He will find some chink, some aperture by which he will escape, was said of crafty, subtle, and cunning men, who, confine them ever so carefully, would still find some method of getting loose; a Monkhausen. But the adage is also applicable to persons who are ingenious in finding a flaw in any engagement or agreement, when it is no longer their interest to abide by the terms of it; to the lower members of the law, who read a deed not so much to find out what was the intention of the parties, as to see whether it may not be made to bear some other construction.
To find out meanings never meant.
Or who, in penning a deed, contrive to insert some word of doubtful, or equivocal sense, that may vitiate some of the covenants, always looking to the advantage of the craft.

God has visited him for his sins. It has come home to him at last. The security he so long enjoyed, proved a snare to him, and led him to the commission of still greater crimes, hoping for the same impunity; but the merited punishment has at length overtaken him. It intimates, that no offence, though committed ever so privately, can escape the knowledge of the Deity, or ultimately his just vengeance.