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- I do not wish more external goods,—neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons.†
Chpt 2. *external = outside
- [216] To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking†
Chpt 3.
- Toward all this external evil, the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude, and affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.†
Chpt 5.
- All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.†
Chpt 5.
- Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed, then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora,[503] Fauna,[504] Ceres,[505] and Pomona,[506] to come in.†
Chpt 8.
- Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is, as might be expected, a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.†
Chpt 8.
- Malone's sentence is an important piece of external history.†
Chpt 9.
- Hence, though our external history is so meager, yet, with Shakspeare for biographer, instead of Aubrey[637] and Rowe,[638] we have really the information which is material, that which describes character and fortune, that which, if we were about to meet the man and deal with him, would most import us to know.†
Chpt 9.
- Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws and fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties which impose new restraints on the young inhabitant.†
Chpt 10.externally = relating to the outside
- But assume a consent and it shall presently be granted, since really and underneath their all external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.†
Chpt 10.external = outside
Definitions:
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(1)
(external) outsidein various senses, including:
- coming from or existing outside a place, organization or thing -- as in "external trade"
- forming or relating to an outside boundary -- as in "external walls"
- on the surface or superficial as contrasted to something that is deep or complete -- as in "external appearances"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)