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See also:TRUMBULL, See also:JOHN (1750-1831) , See also:American poet, was See also:born in what is now See also:Watertown, See also:Connecticut, where his See also:father was a Congregational preacher, on the 24th of See also:April 1750. At the See also:age of seven he passed his entrance See also:examinations at Yale, but did not enter until 1763; he graduated in 1767, studied See also:law there, and in 1771-1773 was a See also:tutor. In 1773 he was admitted to the See also:bar, in 1773-1774 practised law in See also:Boston, working in the law-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, and after 1774 practised in New Haven. He was See also:state See also:attorney in 1789, a member of the Connecticut See also:Assembly in 1792 and 1800, and a See also:judge of the See also:Superior See also:Court in 1801-1819. The last six years of his See also:life were spent in See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan, where he died on the loth of May 1831. While studying at Yale he had contributed in 1769-1770 ten essays, called " The Meddler," imitating The Spectator, to the Boston See also:Chronicle, and in 1770 similar essays, signed " The Correspondent " to the Connecticut See also:Journal and New Haven See also:Post Boy. While a tutor he wrote his first See also:satire in See also:verse, The Progress of Dulness (1772-1773), an attack in three poems on educational methods of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. His See also:great poem, which ranks him with See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Freneau and See also:Francis See also:Hopkinson as an American See also:political satirist of the See also:period of the See also:War of See also:Independence, was McFingal, of which the first See also:canto, " The See also:Town-See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
Meeting," appeared in 1776 (dated 1775). This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from " See also:Gage's See also:Proclamation," published in the Connecticut Courant for the 7th and the 14th of See also:August 1775; it portrays a Scotch Loyalist, McFingal, and his Whig opponent, See also:Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams. This first canto was divided into two, and with a third and a See also:fourth canto was published in 1782. After the war Trumbull was a rigid Federalist, and with the " See also:Hartford Wits " See also:David See also:Humphreys, See also:Joel See also:Barlow and Lemuel See also:Hopkins, wrote the Anarchiad, a poem directed against the enemies of a See also:firm central See also:government.
See the memoir in the Hartford edition of Trumbull's Poetical See also:Works (2 vols., 1820) ; See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Hammond Trumbull's The Origin of
McFingal" (Morrisania, New See also:York, 1868) ; and the estimate in M. C. See also:Tyler's See also:Literary See also:History of the American Revolution (New York, 1897).
End of Article: TRUMBULL, JOHN (1750-1831)
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