Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, 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 . much conversewith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-quence. The frontiers and small inilitai) posts hadbeen his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for hisrank, and quite bigoted in his ignorai/ce. His sim-plicity was child-like, and with innumerable preju-dices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to thetender age. Thus, if a man, however respe
Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, 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 . much conversewith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-quence. The frontiers and small inilitai) posts hadbeen his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for hisrank, and quite bigoted in his ignorai/ce. 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 jihrase,touch with a pair of tongs. .y 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. Inshorefew men have ever had a more conifor;;-. ? -^ry,^saving contempt for learnirg of evei^ -/^^^^ Sc^U^^^^ru) TJIIRTEENTH FRtiSWENT. 67
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