 there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals, the woman has often the advantage of the man."* In this opinion I have...  Notes on Aristophanes and Plato - Page 239by Thomas Gray - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...The Sexes. ACCORDING to Plato (whose opinion I state in the clear and concise language of Mr. Gray,) "there is no natural difference " between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the en" tire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the " inferior ; but in individuals,... | |
 | 1827 - 576 pages
...sanctioned by Plato, and maintained by the most enlightened and judicious philosophers, that, " tbere is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior; but in individuals,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1831 - 544 pages
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 | 1839 - 508 pages
...the same volume, he remarks — " In this opinion I have no doubt that Plato is in the right." That " there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength." . . " The intellectual and moral differences between the sexes, seem to me to be entirely the result... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...chastened taste, and elegant and playful fancy. It was the opinion of Plato, that, with regard to the mind, there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. " When the entire sexes are compared together," says he, " the female is doubtless the inferior hut... | |
 | Plato - 1854 - 548 pages
...knowledge, and the Phoenicians and Egyptians by their desire of gain. Plato marks the threefold distinction. BOOK V.' HEADS OF THE FIFTH DIALOGUE. P. 451. On the...to be alike, as are their employments in the state. P. 452. Custom is forced in time to submit to reason. The sight of men exercising2 naked was once held... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...SEXEs. According to Plato, (whose opinion I state in the clear and concise language of Mr. Gray,) " there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...8EXE& According to Plato, (whose opinion I state in the clear and concise language of Mr. Gray,) " there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 832 pages
...chastened taste, and elegant and playful fancy. It was the opinion of Plato, that, with regard to the mind, there is no natural difference "between the sexes "but in point of strength. ' When the entire sexes are compared together,' says he, 'the female is doubtless the inferior ; but... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 428 pages
...bodies of malefactors were exposed, so called. Ib. To Rofuov.] See the Gorgias, p. 453. DE EEPUBLICA. BOOK V.« HEADS OF THE FIFTH DIALOGUE. P. 451. On the education of the women. There is no natural diiference between the sexes, but in -point of strength ; their exercises, therefore, both of body... | |
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