Title: | The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory; being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41^o. West longitude 72^o:30'; but which may serve without material error, for any of the neighboring climates: containing, among other curious and surprizing particulars, Dick's soliloquy on a college-life--a description of a country-fop---receipt to make a gentleman, with the fop's creed and exposition of the Scriptures---Dick's gradual progress from a clown to a coxcomb---his travels, gallantry, and opinion of the ladies---his peripaetia and catastrophe, with the moral and application of the whole. : Published for the universal benefit of mankind. |
Author: | Trumbull, John, 1750-1831 |
Note: | [New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773] |
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Subject: | Education, Higher -- Anecdotes |
Subject: | Poems -- 1773 |
Subject: | Satires |
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