Daniel O'Connell and the revival of national life in Ireland . he was perhaps a little inordinately vain, he was inreality a very simple, homely person. Unpretentiousin all that concerned himself, he showed himself tomen exactly as he was. His faults were as patent ashis good qualities. His life was an open book, whichall men might read—a book in which, while therewas much to blame, there was much more to com-mend, and a book which men interpreted generouslyor illiberally as their own natures were generous orilliberal. Seldom till, in his declining days, knowingwhat it was to be ill, he rejoic
Daniel O'Connell and the revival of national life in Ireland . he was perhaps a little inordinately vain, he was inreality a very simple, homely person. Unpretentiousin all that concerned himself, he showed himself tomen exactly as he was. His faults were as patent ashis good qualities. His life was an open book, whichall men might read—a book in which, while therewas much to blame, there was much more to com-mend, and a book which men interpreted generouslyor illiberally as their own natures were generous orilliberal. Seldom till, in his declining days, knowingwhat it was to be ill, he rejoiced like a healthyschoolboy in the exercise of his physical follow his beagles on foot in the dewy freshnessof the morning, when the sun was shooting itsearliest rays over the Atlantic, was to him the su-premest pleasure in life. Loving nature in all herchanging moods, he was never so entirely happy aswhen at Darrynane. Learned he was not, so far asbook-lore went. Indeed, outside legal literature, ofwhich he possessed a competent knowledge, he was.
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