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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, 41⁰. West longitude 72⁰:30'; 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
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The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory; [microform] : being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41⁰. West longitude 72⁰:30'; 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.
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[New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]
Physical Description
x, [1], 12-27, [1] p. ; 17 cm. (4to)
Notes
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 named in the imprint of the third part.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ D².
With a half-title.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13051).
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Books / Microforms
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 13051
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 20533
Trumbull, J.H. List of books printed in Connecticut, 1709-1800, 1527
Wegelin, O. Early American poetry, 402
Genre/Form
Poems - 1773.
Satires.
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