To promote the harmony and happiness of a system; because the want of external goods in some, and the abundance in others, increase general harmony in the obligor and obliged.
He exposes their folly, even in their own notions of external goods.
This he does, first, by inquiring into the reasons of the present providential disposition of external goods,--a topic of confutation chosen with the greatest accuracy and penetration.
Thus, covetousness is directed against the external goods or possessions of a neighbor, while hate may extend to either internal or external goods.
Wherefore, since the magnanimous man does not think much of external goods, that is goods of fortune, he is neither much uplifted by them if he has them, nor much cast down by their loss.
It follows that if a man fear God perfectly, he does not, by pride, seek greatness either in himself or in external goods, viz.
The duty of not allowing one's self to become morally a slave to external goods, carries with it, as its corollary, the duty of bearing poverty patiently if circumstances impose it on us.
Now this is threefold: external goods, goods of the body, and goods of the soul.
And therefore it is with reason that the good of the body is preferred to external goods, which are signified by "riches," just as the good of the soul is preferred to all bodily goods.
But happiness does not consist in external goods, nor in goods of the body, as shown above (AA.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external goods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
