Portrait and biographical records of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . 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,ch
Portrait and biographical records of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . 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 theoffi-nder 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 utteiunfitness for heavy marchings and combats. In shori-few men have ever had a more comfortable. ->o».saving contempt for learning of every
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