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].

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trumbull, John, 1750-1831
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 12585.
Subjects:	Education, Higher > Anecdotes. Poems > 1772. Satires.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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].
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless /
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless /
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831
Published: (1794)

The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless : By the celebrated author of Mc.Fingal.
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831
Published: (1797)

The progress of dulness [as printed], or, The rare adventures of Tom Brainless /
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

The progress of dulness, [as printed], or, The rare adventures of Tom Brainless /
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831
Published: (1794)

The progress of dulness [as printed], or, The rare adventures of Tom Brainless /
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831
Published: (1801)

The progress of dulness, or the rare adventures of Tom Brainless : By the celebrated author of Mc. Fingal.
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

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].
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

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$. West longitude 72$: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.
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

He and she : a book of them /
by: Moffatt, James, 1870-1944
Published: (1933)

The protical son : A welch preachment by the parson of Llangtyddre, on the return of his protical son. From these worts: -he went into a far country, and there spent his substance in riotous living. And when he had spent all, &c. Publish'd from an authentic manuscript. He that runs may read.
by: Parson of Llangtyddre
Published: (1750)

Tom's experience in Dakota : why he went; what he did there; what crops he raised and how he raised them; what they cost him, and what he received for them ... with practical information for all classes of people who want homes in the West.
by: Miller, A. P.
Published: (1883)

The Progress of dulness [as printed].
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

Rare people and rare books /
by: Sowerby, E. Millicent (Emily Millicent)
Published: (1967)

Superdove : how the pigeon took Manhattan-- and the world /
by: Humphries, Courtney, 1977-
Published: (2008)

The Miser [outwitte?]d : Shewing ... how the miser contrived to murder his niece for the sake of her money, but was disappointed of his wicked purpose, and how he was forced to part with all his gold to save his life, &c.
Published: (1775)

He knew Lincoln /
by: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Published: (1907)

He bet on Wild Bill's gun /
by: Mote, Wayne D.
Published: (1951)

Raree show, or, The true Protestant procession : a new ballad to the tune of the Northumberland man.
by: Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681

Rare books uncovered : true stories of fantastic finds in unlikely places /
by: Barry, Rebecca Rego, 1976-
Published: (2015)

The Pleasant history of lazy Laurence : containing his birth and slothful breeding: and also, as he grew to maturity, how he cast a charm of laziness on his master, mistress, and scholars.--Also, on a cook, who was dressing a wedding dinner, and could not stir until dinner was spoiled. Likewise on a farmer and all his men, who could not stir, notwithstanding it rained on them and the corn for twelve hours. And lastly his trial before Sir Jeffery Jobson, in the town-hall of Never-Work. And how to this day laziness is intailed on his posterity.

Tom's wife! : and how he managed her /
by: Tallman, George Douglas
Published: (1877)

The Progress of dulness [as printed.]. being an astonomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New York ...
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831
Published: (1773)

Mr. Fox : how he went hunting /
by: Wood, Lawson, 1878-1957
Published: (1900)

The progress of dulness [as printed]. sometimes called, The progress of coquetry, or the adventures of Miss Harriet Simper, of the colony of Connecticut ...
by: Trumbull, John, 1750-1831

How George Washington got his gunpowder.
Published: (1980)

Stephen Burroughs's sermon : delivered in Rutland, on a hay mow, to his auditory, the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion.
by: Burroughs, Stephen, 1765-1840
Published: (1800)

Richard's crown : how he won and wore it /
by: Weaver, Anna D.
Published: (1882)

The fine art of hypochondria ; or, How are you? /
by: Ace, Goodman
Published: (1966)

How to live with a neurotic husband /
by: Baker, Stephen
Published: (1971)

How to live with a neurotic wife /
by: Baker, Stephen
Published: (1970)

Stephen Burroughs's sermon : delivered in Rutland, on a hay mow, to his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the author's Memoirs, p. 90, 91, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion.
by: Burroughs, Stephen, 1765-1840

Stephen Burrough's [as printed] sermon : delivered at Rutland, on a hay-mow, to his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the authors Memoirs, p. 90, 96, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion.
by: Burroughs, Stephen, 1765-1840
Published: (1798)

Stephen Burrouhs' [as printed] sermon : Delivered in Rutland on a hay-mow. To his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel, shut himself into a barn, to which he ran for assylum [as printed]; when he ascended a hay mow which was inaccessible except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the author's Memoirs page ninety, and delivered to them the following sermon on the occasion.
by: Burroughs, Stephen, 1765-1840
Published: (1798)

Stephen Burrouhs' [as printed] sermon : Delivered in Rutland on a hay-mow. To his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel, shut himself into a barn, to which he ran for assylum [as printed], when he ascended a hay mow which was inaccessible except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the author's Memoirs, page 90, and delivered to them the following sermon on the occasion.
by: Burroughs, Stephen, 1765-1840
Published: (1798)

The comical tricks of Lothian Tom : with a selection of anecdotes.

The New game of cards, or, A pack of cards changed into a compleat and perpetual almanack : in a dialogue between a nobleman and his servant. First, shewing the use of his almanack, by the quarters, months, weeks, and days of the year. : Secondly, shewing how he converts his cards into a compleat monitor, or prayer-book; with his curious remarks on the knave. : The whole adapted to the entertainment of the humorous, as well as to the satisfaction of the grave, learned, and ingenius.
Published: (1797)

The New game of cards, or, A pack of cards changed into a compleat and perpetual almanack : in a dialogue between a nobleman and his servant. First, shewing the use of his almanack, by the quarters, months, weeks, and days of the year. : Secondly, shewing how he converts his cards into a compleat monitor, or prayer book; with his curious remarks on the knave. : The whole adapted to the entertainment of the humorous, as well as to the satisfaction of the grave, learned, and ingenious.
Published: (1792)

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