Traherne says in the seventeenth century: "Will you see the infancy of this sublime and celestial greatness?

This is not what is commonly called mémoires,to wit, historical recollections modified by the subjective impressions of eyewitnesses to the past; it is rather a novel or romance in the form of mémoires, ridiculing the predominant bourgeoisie of the Old World, and sketching the whole life of a bourgeois, from infancy to green old age.

John Stevens was not a reader of romance and poetry, which at his age were in their infancy in Virginia.

I mentioned to him our contrivance of silver forks, to lessen this labour; but he coldly remarked, that he imagined science was in its infancy with us.

So one may list: Infancy as the epoch of the thymus Childhood as the epoch of the pineal Adolescence as the epoch of the gonads Maturity as the epoch of whatever gland is left in control as the result of the life struggle.

Thou hast been nurtured from thy infancy on substances endowed with lethal properties, commonly called poisons.

It was nursed in its infancy at Oxford by two rare brothers and a few students; was christened at the same place by a keenly-observing, slightly-satirical collegian; developed itself gradually through the country; took charge of the neglected masses and gave them a new life; and today it is one of the great religious forces of the world.

Punctuality in the hours of sleep was carefully carried out from infancy through the years that followed.

Age will be often without solace, sickness without alleviation, and infancy without support; because some would not amass for themselves, nor others for their children, the profits of their labour in a representative sign of uncertain value.

The great invention of Jarley, however, was the result of his study of Jarley junior as that very charming and exceedingly agile child developed from infancy into boyhood.

A young Nantucket giant married to a dainty waif rescued in infancy from the sea.

There is no one of us of the sterner sex who is not at some time dependent upon woman,in infancy for protection, in manhood for companionship, in old age for care and comforting.

Come, Clara, sing some of those sweet old ballads!" From her infancy until now in her twentieth year, Clara had been constantly with her father,but she had never known him before.

From their infancy up to what in our comic caricature of words we call "maturity," they have been bandaged.

It would be difficult to protract the weakness of infancy beyond the usual time, but the mind may be very easily hindered from its share of improvement, and the bulk and strength of manhood must, without the assistance of education and instruction, be informed only with the understanding of a child.

God's love to man, when man is fighting from his infancy against his Maker.