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inted in foolscap 4to. price 1s. 6d._ CLAREMONT. A Poem. By THOMAS HARRAL. The Second Edition. The various Reviews, in their notice of the above Poem, describe it as the most interesting among the many that appeared on the melancholy occasion of the Princess Charlotte's decease.--It possesses considerable fancy and interest, and as a mere poem, would be read with pleasure. The influence of the changing season upon a beautiful oak at Claremont, is blended with the address to her who also graced the scene, and is made the vehicle for observing upon her laudable love of nature and retirement. The oak is rent by lightning, and all its strength and glory levelled by the momentary shaft: thus also were a nation's hopes overthrown! IV.--_In demy 12mo. with a beautiful Frontispiece from LAVATER, price 4s. in boards,_ ANNALS OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE; with important Observations on Diet, Regimen, Plan of Life; &c. including RECORDS of LONGEVITY, and Biographical Anecdotes of One Hundred and Forty of the Oldest and most remarkable Persons, in various Ages and Countries. By JOSEPH TAYLOR. "Air and exercise; sobriety and temperance; the mind at ease, and a good conscience; are the grand preservers of health and guardians of old age." "We are not to indulge our corporeal appetites with pleasures that impair our intellectual vigour, nor gratify our mind with schemes which we know our lives must fail in attempting to execute." DR. JOHNSON. "Mr. Taylor's Annals of Health and Long Life form a very useful volume; and the facts which it records are likely to promote the happiness of its readers, if they have sufficient virtue to walk in those paths of temperance which lead to health and longevity." _Monthly Magazine, January 1819_ V.--_Finely printed in royal 32mo. with a beautiful Frontispiece by J. FITTLER, Esq. price 2s. 6d. in extra boards,_ GEMS OF BRITISH POESY, Devotional, Elegiac, and Preceptive: containing the most sublime and beautiful Productions in the English Language. "Live while you live," the epicure will say, "And seize the pleasures of the fleeting day." "Live while you live," the sacred preacher cries, "And give to God each moment as it flies." LORD! in my views let both united be; I live in pleasure when I live to thee. _Doddridge._ The delight arising from th
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