@article{633768, recid = {633768}, author = {Trumbull, John,}, 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, 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. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green],}, address = {[New Haven] :}, pages = {x,[1],12-27,[1]p. ;}, year = {1773}, note = {In verse.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/633768}, }