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  The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless. By the celebrated author of Mc.Fingal.
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in the Dictionary of American biography. The progress of dulness. Part first -- The progress of dulness. Part second. Or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain of finical ...
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  The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. : Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text]
  Date of publication:
  1772
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. Ascribed to the New Haven press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the third part (Evans 13052). With a half-title. Three states of the gathering [A] ...
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  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.
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. "Advertisement. To be published by the next commencement ... The progress of dulness, part third and last."--p. [28]. Ascribed to the press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are ...
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  The progress of dulness. Part third, and last: sometimes called, The progress of coquetry, or The adventures of Miss Harriet Simper, of the colony of Connecticut. Containing advice of the ladies to Harriet's mother concerning education. Address to parents, Harriet's studies, skill in fashions, scandal and romances; with the consequent occurrences of her life by way of illustration of the moral of the work. : For the use of the ladies and their parents. : [Two lines in Latin from Virgil]
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. With a half-title. Errata slip mounted on p. viii.
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  The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless; shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he became a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same. : The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text]
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. Ascribed to the New Haven press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the first edition of the third part (Evans 13052). With a half-title. "Now in the ...
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  A new proclamation! By Thomas Gage, whom British frenzy stil'd honourable and excellency, o'er Massachusett's sent to stand here vice-admiral and chief commander ...
  Date of publication:
  1775
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. and Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787.
  Description:
  A rhymed satirical paraphrase of General Gage's proclamation of June 12, 1775. Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. Caption title. Royal arms at head of title. First published in the Connecticut courant for Aug. 7 and 14, ...
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