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]
- Title
- 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]
- Author
- Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
- Publication
- [New Haven] :: Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green],
- in the year 1772.
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- Subject terms
- Education, Higher -- Anecdotes
- Poems -- 1772.
- Satires.
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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]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N09891.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.