But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.

How much they have to do with sexual impulses, sexual excitement, and sexual desire, what the Freudians have popularized as the libido, and how subtly they act upon the coming and duration of adolescence and maturity, as well as sexual precocity and peversions, we shall consider in a later chapter.

Yet this effect corresponds to the conception of its importance in childhood as a retardant of precocity, physical and mental.

When the adrenals increase in size in childhood, a remarkable triad followsgeneral hairiness, adiposity and sexual precocity.

When the adrenals evoke precocity, and an early awakening of the secondary sex characteristics, it is a masculine precocity, and an approximation to the masculine even in females.

When the adrenals evoke precocity, and an early awakening of the secondary sex characteristics, it is a masculine precocity, and an approximation to the masculine even in females.

There is a definite degree of thymus activity during everyone's childhood, unless by its premature involution, precocity displaces juvenility.

In his seventeenth year he was already engaged to be married, which proves his precocity.

For this fortunate act of rescue the Earl of Clandennie presented to his son's preserver a gold snuffbox filled with guineas, and inscribed with the following legend: "To Lieutenant Thomas Goodhouse, who, under the Ruling of Beneficent Providence, was the Happy Preserver of a Beautiful and Precious Life of Virtuous Precocity, this Box is presented by the Father of Him whom He saved as a grateful acknowledgment of His Services.

The great peculiarity of his youth was his precocity.

John Calvin's position His early life and precocity Becomes a leader of Protestants Removes to Geneva

Precocity of Gladstone.

In connection with Webster, I do not read of any remarkable precocity, at school or college, such as marked Cicero, Macaulay, and Gladstone; but it seems that he won the esteem of both teachers and students, and was regarded as a very promising youth.

Obscurity and precocity are generally symptoms of an exaggerated dread of the commonplace.

Florentine children were noted for precocity and cruelty.

When he will smoke depends upon the precocity of his individual generation; and that increases in a direct ratio with time itself, in this country.

He was not regularly articled as a Government-tool!Perhaps the most pleasing and striking of all Mr. Southey's poems are not his triumphant taunts hurled against oppression, are not his glowing effusions to Liberty, but those in which, with a mild melancholy, he seems conscious of his own infirmities of temper, and to feel a wish to correct by thought and time the precocity and sharpness of his disposition.

If he should display the precocity of his talents by expressing impious opinions before his brothers and sisters, we should not much blame his father for cutting short the controversy with a horse-whip.

The productions of her pen and pencil seem to justify this assertion, so far as the precocity of such a mere child may warrant the ungarnered fruits of future years.

An admirable story of commercial precocity reaches me from one of the many correspondents who have been good enough to write to me in connection with this book.

Humanities, theology, canons, everything, the young man mastered with an ease which surprised his masters, and they compared him to the Fathers of the Church, who had attracted attention by their precocity.

In any case the composition must, I think, be held to surpass in genuine qualities Cowley's flashy precocity.

Crowe and Cavalcaselle, and Dr. Bode prefer to say "before 1477," a supposition which would make his precocity less phenomenal, and help to explain some chronological difficulties (see p. 66).

The teacher of a large school in Canada went so far as to declare to us, that she could recognize the children born this side the line by their invariable appearance of ill-health joined with intellectual precocity,stamina wanting, and the place supplied by equations.

When will parents and teachers learn to regard mental precocity as a disaster to be shunned, instead of a glory to be coveted?