Which preposition to use with externals

to Occurrences 45%

The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

of Occurrences 41%

Although Crewe did not allow the externals of his two existences to become involved, his chief interest in life was in his work.

in Occurrences 7%

If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.

as Occurrences 2%

Married partners most commonly meet after death, know each other, again associate and for a time live together: this is the case in the first state, thus while they are in externals as in the world.

from Occurrences 2%

There are both internal and external similitudes and dissimilitudes; the internal derive their origin from religion, and the external from education, 246.

like Occurrences 2%

It was, moreover, not only in externals like clothes that the childhood of Sylvia and Judith and Lawrence differed from that of the other faculty children.

than Occurrences 2%

An Englishman is seldom out of humour, without proclaiming it to all the world; and the most forcible motives of interest, or expediency, cannot always prevail on him to assume a more engaging external than that which delineates his feelings.

AS Occurrences 1%

THIS IS THE CASE IN THE FIRST STATE, THUS WHILE THEY ARE IN EXTERNALS AS IN THE WORLD.

before Occurrences 1%

The reason why the delights of love are changed into such and similar things is, because all things which exist in the spiritual world are correspondences: into these correspondences the internals of the minds of the inhabitants are changed, while they pass away and become external before the senses.

over Occurrences 1%

She was vastly superior to the men who surrounded her, most of whom were pedants, or sophists, or bigots; dignitaries indeed, but men who exalted the accidental and the external over the real and the permanent; men who were fond of quibbles and sophistries, jealous of each other and of their own reputation, dogmatic and positive as priests are apt to be, and most positive on points which either are of no consequence or cannot be solved.

Which preposition to use with  externals