Precocious eyes and ears take in its teachings from adolescence.
Richard Doyle's precocious sense of humour is exemplified in his illustrations for the Comic Histories, executed by him when fifteen years of age, but which were posthumously published.
Let me urge you, if you have a precocious child, to give, and that before it be too late, the subject in question your best consideration.
It is not desirable, therefore, to have a precocious child.
Are precocious boys in their general health usually strong or delicate?
A precocious youth is predisposed to consumption, more so than to any other disease.
How proud a mother is in having a precocious child!
There was a certain Scotchman at Harrodstown called McAndrew, and it was he gave me the nickname "Canny Davy," and I grew to have a sort of precocious fame in the station.
Repeatedly, as she was held up to it, a precocious roller would sweep from bow to stern, until we without coats were wet and shivering.
With all his gentleness, the boy seemed to have a precocious understanding of the verities, and the capacity for suffering which as a child I had possessed.
Ralph Hambleton, with hisprecocious and cynical knowledge of the world, minimized my triumph by declaring that he would rather be his grandfather, Nathaniel Durrett, than the mayor of the biggest city in the country.
And these gardens are, as a rule, neither suburban slips, with precocious trees selected for their speedy power of growth, nor the painfully pretentious enclosures which auctioneers delight to term 'grounds.
He was one of the few instances of a precocious genius maintaining his powers to an advanced period of life.
It would be impossible to give a complete catalogue of the crimes which stained this precocious monster.
A very precocious youth, a distinguished career was predicted for him.
Bede was a precocious youth, whose excellent parts commended him to Bishop Benedict.
Precocious beyond any other known instance of precocity; intensely haughty; bold in falsehood; working best when the moon was at the full, he stands in English literature as the most singular of its curiosities.
He is said to have been so precocious that he read Spenser with pleasure when he was twelve years old; and he published a volume of poems, entitled "Poetical Blossoms," before he was fifteen.
He was a precocious child, and, after attending school at Dalkeith, he entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of twelve.
Francis Bacon was a delicate, attractive, and precocious child, noticed by the great, and kindly called by the queen "her little lord keeper.
But, unfortunately, his forgery did fatal injury by its example; it inspired Chatterton, the precocious boy, to make another attempt on public credulity.
There was too much of precocious daring in the act not to stir the feelings of a soldier who had conquered everything but his cool contempt for danger.
The children of the rich in this country are generally brought up in great self-indulgence, excessive liberty, and according to a precocious method.
With all his manly energy and precocious gravity, Clement’s young heart was passionately tender.
But all of this was but a mere preparation for and foreshadowing of a great mental development and very precocious culture which was rapidly approaching.
If the child could recognize some check--even if it were deemed by some a superstitious one--over her capricious and precocious nature, why should he interfere?
The master alone foresaw trouble in this encouragement of her precocious manner.
It had just occurred to him that the little waif was from the extreme South, and the precocious maturity of the mixed races there was well known.
Fortunately, he did not relate it to the critic, who would in all probability have added a precocious motherhood to the young lady's possible qualities.
He styled Clare, who talked Baedeker to him in her primmest and most precocious way, Miss Guest, and once at least during the evening dubbed me plain Bab.
Nicholas Kenyon sounds to me rather a precocious boy," said Ethel.
Kenyon darted a quick look at the man who had always caused him a considerable amount of inward laughter, whom he had labelled as a precocious provincial.
These Club evenings amused me enormously, though incidentally they resulted in my acquiring a precocious love of strong, rank Hamburg cigars.
Although Henry came to the throne a mere boy, he was a precocious boy.
In the precocious the several stages of life succeed each other more quickly than in others, and probably they themselves do not wear so well.
The precocious lad, in his loneliness, raised every question which the race was wrestling with.
He was precocious in his intellectual development and much spoiled by vanity.
Horace was a feeble and precocious lad, taking little interest in the ordinary sports of childhood, learning to read before he was able to talk plainly, and the prodigy of the neighbourhood for accurate spelling.
She was a wicked, precocious little imp, that girl, and sooner or later would have come to a bad end.
He was not a good student, but undermined his health by desultory though enormous reading and by writing a precocious Treatise on the Will, which an irate master burned and the future novelist afterwards naïvely deplored.
Its sluggish current bears along remarkable knowledge, great reflection, and the imagination of a fertile as well as a precocious brain.
I had a precocious nature and it had been unfolded in an atmosphere of strictly intellectual ideas.
It was not interest alone, however, which prompted her to hide herself; she carried her pride in her precocious strength so far that she was unwilling to appear a child.
Of precocious nature, she endured her martyrdom with extraordinary fortitude.
Lieving attests the same respecting the hair, and assures us that precociousbaldness is to be specially observed ‘among persons of nervous temperaments and active mind, but of weak general health.
It was something outside the novelettes she had read, and outside her own precocious thoughts.
It was that Madam had insisted upon early obedience in days when Gaga's precocious ill-health made him pliable; and a docile child becomes a tractable boy and finally a man who needs constant guidance.
