Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . ith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-quence. Tiie frontiers and small military posts hadbeen his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for hisrank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance. His sim-plicity was child-like, and with innumerable preju-dices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to th
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . ith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-quence. Tiie frontiers and small military posts hadbeen his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for hisrank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance. His sim-plicity was child-like, and with innumerable preju-dices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to thetender age. Thus, if a man, however respectable,chanced to wear a coat of an unusual color, or his hata little on one side of his head; or an officer to leavea corner of his handkerchief dangling from an out-side pocket,—in any such case, this critic held theoffender to be a coxcomb (perhaps something worse),whom he would not, to use his oft repeated phrase,touch with a pair of tongs. Any allusion to literature beyond good old Dil-worths spelling-book, on the part of one wearing asword, was evidence, with the same judge, of utterunfitness for heavy marchings and combats. In shorffew men have ever had a more comforta;.-:, >->>?>-«.saving contempt for le3rnir.| of every kind,.
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