NOB 
Noarties, ApriAN-Maurice, Duc de a oo 
Ww 
Noailles was exiled. On the d 
called and reftored to his lc. In h 
the fiege of ee and obliged the Germans to aban- 
rwards Terved with high reputation in 
OAILLES, in Geography, a town of France, in the 
Hy alae of the Olt, and chief a of acanton, in the 
i of Beauvais; 7 miles S.E.of Beauyais. e place 
one 632, and the canton eae inhabitants, on a territory 
of 185 kiliometres, in 22 communes. 
ee a — of Hindooftan, in Bahar, 25 
miles W.S.W. o rah. 
NOALE, a fe of Italy, in the Trevifan; 9 miles 
8.5. W. of Trevigio. 
NOANAGUR, a town of Bengal, in the province of 
Tipera ; oe miles N. of Comillah. N. lat. 23° 45’. E. 
long. gt 
Noana ce. or Cutchnagur, a town of Hindocttah, 
and capital of a diftri, in the aoe of Guzerat, near 
the gulf of a 178 miles W.5.W. of Amedabad 
at.22° 22), ee 62° 30/. 
NOA NAMAS, a town of South America, in the pro- 
vince of Choco, cae inhabited by Indians ; 170 miles N. 
of Popayan. t. g° ri, - long. 76° 46'.—Alfo, a 
river of South America, which eins into the Parific ocean, 
lat. 
noANéonc, a town of Bengal; 30 miles S. of 
Rajemal. 
NOARA, La, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Demona ; 
to miles §.E. of Patti. 
N Nose, Noba, or Nomba, in Ancient Geography, a 
facerdotal city of Paleftine, at the fartheft extremity weit- 
ward of the tribe of Benjamin, and the place where the ark 
ims time refted, after the taking of Shiloh by the Philiftines, 
fo totally ruined by king Saul, on account of the {mall 
affiftance which the high pret quae - given a he 
gitive David, that accordin t. Jerome, it la ay in 
in his time, which were then fle ata fall diftance fon 
Diofpolis. 
BA, in Ceograplys a {mall ifland in the Eaft Indian 
fea, near the W. of Aroo. S. lat. 5° 5’. E. long. 
SOsBER, a {mall poft-town of Ireland, in the county 
of Meath, noted as the birth-place of O’Carolan, the Irifh 
bard. It is 334 miles . from Dublin. 
NOBILTARY, a colletion, or aaa account, of 
the noble families ar a province, or n 
Chorier has ara aie a eotige! sf Dacghines ; and Cau- 
martin, another of Pro he Germans are particu- 
ey careful of their ache, to keep up the purity of 
heir families, 
NOBILISSIMUS, in Antiquity, a title, or quality, 
given to the princes of the imperial family. 
Doucine advances, that the title nobiliffimus was firft 
given under the emperor Juftin ; others find the title nobilis 
NOB 
Cafar, or N.C. that is hee bi mus mee on medals long 
before that time, even a an. Spanheim and 
e it to his two > brother oe ich it was attri- 
buted to fuch of the emperor’s children as were not Cefars. 
See Cmsar. 
Triftan dee that the Cefars bore the title of —_ ime 
i but that the nobili iffimate firft became a di- 
pa ce penton dignity in the time of Con ate the 
ay the 
Pe the term nobility i is reftrained to de- 
grees of dignity above knighthood. Every where elfe ne- 
el ~ gentility, or gentry, are the fame. See Grn. 
TLE 
Some. refer the origin of nobility in Europe to the 
Goths: who, after they had feized a of Europe, 
rewarded their captains with titles of Acne and called 
them nobles, nobiles, to diftinguifh them from the common 
eople. 
Nobility, i in England, is only conferred by the king, 
and that by writ or by patent, in virtue whereof it becomes 
hereditary: ‘In other countries there are other ways of ac- 
quiring it. 
The nobility of England is aren oi bak 5 of England. 
Its ap pte are only five 3 vzz. t uke, a marquis, 
earl or count, | cone, and bac “See under Duke, 
Mason c. 
The ¢ diftin€ion of rank and — is neceflary in every 
well governed ftate, in order to rewa ch as are eminent 
= their fervices to the public, in a manner moft agreeable 
o themfelves, and without burthen to the community ; and 
: the fame time to excite in others a {pirit of laudable emu- 
n our mixed and compounded conftitution, a body 
of nobility is sees ser pen as a barrier a oT 
the encroachments bat the crown and o eople. 
It creates and preferves, ae judge Blackftone, nat gradual 
cale of dignity which proceeds from the peafant to the 
prince ; rifing like a pyramid, from a broad pas and 
diminifhing to a point as it rifes. It is this afcending and 
contracting proportion that adds ftability to any government ; 
for — es departure is fudden from one extreme to an- 
other, 
u pate can be sages againit them ; 
nft them for action of debt, 
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