Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . nversewith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-quence. The 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 theten
Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . nversewith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-quence. The 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 short,few men have ever had a more comfortable, labor-saving contempt for learning of every kind. ..-*^*-. T /.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectgoverno, bookyear1890
