Excerpt from The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected; With Notes and Historical Illustrations Truth to say, much of this early misconception of his character was davis's own fault. He learned much suffered much, I have no doubt: felt and sympathised much; and hoped and enjoyed abundantly; but he had not yet learned to rely on himself. His powers were like the nucleus Of an embryo star, uncompressed, unpurified, ickering and indistinct. He carried about with him huge loads of what other men, most Of them statists and logicians, had thought proper to assert; but what he thought and felt himself, he did not think of putting forward. The result was, that during his college course, and for some years after, while he was very generally liked, he had, unless perhaps with some who knew him intimately, but a moderate reputation for high ability of any kind. In his twenty-fifth year, as I remember that is, in the spring of 1839, - he first began to break out of this. His opinions began to have weight, and his character and in uence to unfold themselves in a variety of ways. In the following year he entered poli tical life. But this is not the place to recount the details of his subsequent career. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."