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It is true that he might have retired towards Piedmont and concentrated his troops at Alexandria, to await there the reinforcements the Directory had promised to send him. But if he had done this, he would have compromised the safety of the army at Naples, and have abandoned it, isolated as it was, to the mercy of the enemy.
And following certain values which he has made, he draws the lesson that the study of philosophy must always go together with the study of general culture. These examples are not isolated; yet it is rather a barren science to search for the canons of Philo's allegory, as Siegfried has done.
The two cases are essentially dissimilar. They may appear to differ but little morphologically, but from the point of view of heredity they are quite different. Isolated quaternate leaves are of but little interest, while the occurrence of many on the same individual indicates a distinct variety.
The celestial bodies are evidently isolated in space, and the tenants of one cannot pass to another. We are confined to our own planet." I. "A similar objection might have been urged against the plan of Columbus." G. "That was different. Columbus only sailed through unknown seas to a distant continent.
In that event, I should no longer be isolated, but Spain would be my ally, and I should probably declare war. But if matters should turn out otherwise, if fortune should favor Napoleon there as everywhere else, necessity alone will determine my course. I shall not attack, and thereby challenge fate of my own accord; but I shall wait, sword in hand, for Napoleon to attack me.
And while he spoke, Graham saw that beyond this area of ruins, overhanging it and rising to a great height, was a ragged mass of white building. This mass had been isolated by the ruthless destruction of its surroundings.
Although obviously part of the mountain near the base of which he stood, this cliff completely isolated as it was seemed a magical effect, and destitute of any real connection with earth. While he was looking in wonder and admiration at the sight, he observed a bird hovering about motionless in the blue vault high above the cliffs.
This isolated elevation rises abruptly from the field of scrub, in the midst of which it is situated and is of granite formation; nearly at its summit is an open grassy plain, which was visible long before we reached it, and which leads directly over the lowest or centre part of the range; water was found in the holes of rock in the granite, and the grass around was very tolerable.
Here and there for a moment we might happen to get a clear reflection of some minute part of the scene of a single leaf from a tree, for example; but it would need long labour and considerable knowledge of natural laws to build up anything like a true conception of the object reflected by putting together even a large number of such isolated fragments of an image of it.
But Lester Armstrong's guardian angel had not quite forgotten him; Heaven had not intended that he should die by thirst and starvation in that isolated cabin, and served him in a strange, unlooked-for way.
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