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felves to the cultivation of their — powers. The 
conduct of thefe men he propofes as an objet of imitation, 
fearlefs of the power, and independent of the favours of the 
eat. Niccolo nape died at the age of 73, in 14 Sea 
: in which he 
aor to $ merits as a bene 
ctor to Tele cannot be ‘ifpated “and he confulted its 
Arte had not Cofmo - 
nds of "his creditors, 
of Poggio Brac- 
I. 
E,i Geography, a province of Italy, now fubje& to 
France, bound on the N. by Pie 
e 
league of Nice, confifting of mountains and 
eable vallice: with a {mall town of the fame name, ona 
declivity bathed by a riyulet that has a foutherly courfe, and 
runs into the fea at aes ia. The paflage of Ten 
acrofs a mountain is more difficult than that of mount 
is, 2. The eal of Brogli, we a mea at of the 
fame a lying am 
f This county. 18 foamed from France, excepting 
the fr é and Provence, ceded by Franc 
A, = : Fangs m e, feated on an 
eminence, was founded A. D. 1230 by Raymond Berenger. 
The « ariel called ee SS Goa! to Italy and 
France, is now xed to the latter, and forms the depart- 
ment “of the Maritime 
: or Nizza, a city and fea-port of 
of the department of the Maritime 
a churches, and thirteen re- 
a houfes. The town acelude: 18,475, and the canton 
— me number = _ a on a territory of 224 kilio- 
ne c 8 the W. it is fortified 
with - a ral and dit, and defended i a caftle. 
the old t are wand crooked; bat thofe of the 
new can are a and i ftraight, with handfome houfes. The 
fuburbs, moft of which are in — are de raed inhabited 
by foreigners. Its eae is conven or {mall veffels, but 
he fout pen country is plea- 
fant and oo the wick ia being highly cultivated 
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interfperfed. Winter here is warm and agreeable 5 in 
March and April san eaft and north-ea 
autumn is ufuall : 
a Roman amphitheatre, st og 
enjoyments furnifhed by 
nd, fuch as vipers, {nakes, and 
ughout the year. This town was 
e Phoczans, after they had built Marfeilles, 
about co on their return from an expedition 
againft the Sali and the Ligurians, and was named Nicaea, 
which fee. 
ere granted them by Ladies to choofe 
tei own protector, and i the ak of fidelity to Ama- 
us VII., count of Savo vernment wasa {pe- 
eal derhoc he in ere renee are divided into four 
orton the aoe the merchants, the artifans, and the huf- 
bandmen, each electing yearly a conful, and ten counfel- 
lors. In the 1792 the French took poffeffion of Nice, 
and the nae hae feemed difpofed to unite cordially with 
their new matters; for in September 1793, when an Englith 
veflel arrived here with a flag of truce, and a proclamation 
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from the mouths of cannon.” N, lat. 43°31’. E. long. 
Nee, Council of, in Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, held at Nice in 
Bithynia A. D. 325, convened by Conftantine in order to 
We have different aa: of the number of bifhops who 
attended on this oc he number pra! allowed is 
cnt of ‘Theodore as aie reckons them — ow long 
Some have given 
ut moft learned 
uguft e three points debated and determined in this 
ouncil were the Arian controverfy, the time of ceping 
Ea er, and the affair of Mele _ in he othin 
This ¢ menda- 
and 20 canons 
It is the moft famous, and the moft venerable of all i 3 
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