He spent his childhood in the log-cottage where he was born, and was dutiful to his mother, and helpful to her in many things, assisting her much with his little hands, and more with his loving heart.

Under whose care he was educated, or in what manner he passed his childhood, whether he made any early discoveries of a genius peculiarly adapted to the study of nature, or gave any presages of his future eminence in medicine, no information is to be obtained.

He has not outgrown childhood in that respect.

The quaint, old-fashioned room recalled her childhood to her.

He looked upon them as strange, incomprehensible beings, just as a man will forget his own childhood and look upon children as strange, incomprehensible little creatures.

It was by no means necessary that such poems should have had an audience of children in mind nor have taken childhood for a subject, though it was natural that a few of the verses should prove to be suggested by some aspect of child-life.

Children should be allowed to enjoy their childhoods.

" In speaking of the stages of development of the individual, Froebel says that "there is no order of importance in the stages of human development except the order of succession, in which the earlier is always the more important," and from that point of view we ought "to consider childhood as the most important stage, ... a stage in the development of the Godlike in the earthly and human."

Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wished is done: By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem t' have lived my childhood o'er again, To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine; And while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.

I had survived childhood by learning to please.

This kinship with nature and with God, which glorifies childhood, ought to extend through a man's whole life and ennoble it.

Home is where you hang your childhood and other stories.

The picture is a frog, but a frog the size of a tadpole, a frog which has missed its childhood, adolescence and youth, skipping over these transition stages into the adult age, as a pigmy.

1. Leif Ericson discovers America, 1000.In our early childhood many of us learned to repeat the lines: Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred, ninety-two.

Manhood discovers what childhood can never divine,that the sorrows of life are superficial, and the happinesses of life structural; and this knowledge alone is enough to give a peace which passeth understanding.

Among the most important of the latter is THE THYMUS The thymus is the gland which dominates childhood.

The domestic influences that encompassed her childhood, her early associations, and the books of devotion which she read, all conspired to imbue her with an earnest sense of divine things, and while yet a young girl, as we have seen, she publicly devoted herself to the service of her God and Saviour.

Since age by erring childhood is misled, Refer yourself to our unerring head.

I felt my childhood for a time renewed, and was by no means disposed to second the assertion that "Nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

" "I never was a child, you know; but I am always trying to find my childhood.

Mr. Wenham fancied himself a paragon of national independence, and was constantly talking of American excellencies, though the ancient impressions still lingered in his moral system, as men look askance for the ghosts which frightened their childhood on crossing a church-yard in the dark.

The former governed my childhood, my youth, and enveloped me with spells, which all the force of the latter and more slowly ripened faculty was barely sufficient to break.

As always in these studies of happy and guarded childhood, Mr. BENSON is at his best, sympathetic, tender, altogether winning.

It is she who watches over our infancy, guides our childhood, presents to our infant minds the rudiments of knowledge, and cheers us in our progress by showing us the honors which attend those who acquire true wisdom, and therefore must her mind be early taught to comprehend the duties which devolve upon her.

It was not such as to prevent me from having a happy childhood.