Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . or much conversewith 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 respect
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . or much conversewith 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 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. Inshor*few men have ever had a more comfortarAe. ->^^ contempt for learning of every
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