EARLY YEARS ४ AND LATE REFLECTIONS BY CLEMENT CARLYON, M.D., LATE FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. II. // LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE. 11858/n INTRODUCTION. It was never my intention, in the following volume, to give a more particular account, than will there be found, of the three individuals whom I have chosen as deserving notice for their distinguished excellence during a period of fearful religious and social degeneracy. I had not the materials for doing so; but my brief acquaintance with them was coincident with those "Early Years" to which my recollections carry me back; and these supply abundant sources of reflection, whilst serving to connect the "auld langsyne" with the results of intervening years, and the obligations of that period of life, when the world and its fleeting pursuits are apt to be estimated according to their real worth. Forty years and more have elapsed since the |