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Nature, by Emerson
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- 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.†
external = outside
- 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.†
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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)