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tiply and replenifli the earth, giving them power over all 
living creatures, and a permiffion to eat of them as freely 
as of the produce of the ground. However, they were, 
■forbidden to eat the blood of animals, or to died that of 
man. At the fame time God gave them a gracious 
a durance, that he would not again deftroy the earth by a 
flood, directing them to confider the phenomenon of the 
rainbow as a token of this promife. After coming down 
from the mountains of Ararat, Noah applied himfelf to 
the cultivation of the ground, and he alfo planted a vine¬ 
yard. From the grapes of this plantation he afterwards 
exprefled wine, the firft making of which is by fome af- 
cribed to him. However, he does not appear as yet to 
have been aware of its ftrength ; for, having been tempted 
'by its agreeable tafte to drink of it too freely, he became 
•completely inebriated, and fell afleep in an indecent and 
naked pofture. In this fituation he was feen by his fon 
Ham, who, in (lead of reverently covering his father's 
nakednefs, went out to his brethren Shem and Japheth, 
and endeavoured to divert them at the expenfe of their 
venerable parent; but thofe worthier fons of the patriarch, 
influenced by true filial piety and refpeX, took a mantle 
on both their (boulders, and; going backwards, concealed 
their father's fhame. When Noah awoke, and was in¬ 
formed of the conduX of his refpeXive fons, filled with 
indignation at the undutiful part which Ham had aXed, 
he pronounced an imprecation againft him, declaring 
that Canaan, his youngeft fon, and who was probably 
moll dear to him, fhould be the fervant of Shem and 
Japheth ; while he poured out his bed bleflings on both 
the latter, for their proper behaviour on that occafion. 
This imprecation and thefe bleflings were prophetical, 
and remarkably fulfilled in the pofierity of the fons of 
Noah; many of the defendants of Ham, who peopled 
Africa* having been reduced to a frate of flavery; while 
the mo ft illufirious nations of Alia and Europe have 
fprung from the defendants of Shem and Japheth. Noah 
died in 1998 B. C. in the 950th year of his age. Nume¬ 
rous traditions, fome of them highly abfurd, have been 
propagated concerning this patriarch by the oriental 
Chriftians, the jews, and the Mahometans; feveral of 
which may be found in D'Herbelot's Bibl. Orient. Gen. v. 
-ix. e Pet. ii, 5. Ancient Un. Hijl. vol. i, chap. j, Blair's 
Chronology. 
NOAI'LLES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vienne.: fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Poitiers, 
NOAI'LLES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Oife : feven miles fouth-eaft of Beauvais. 
NOAI'LLES (Louis-Antbony de), an illufirious French 
prelate and cardinal, was the fecond fon of the firft duke 
de Noailles, and horn in the year 1651, He received an 
education worthy of his high birth; and diftinguilhed 
.himfelf not only by his literary improvement, but by the 
ardour of his piety from his early years. Being inclined 
to the clerical profefljon, he purlued his ftudies at the 
tmjverfity of Paris; and, after taking the degree of licen¬ 
tiate at the Sorbonne with great reputation, was admitted 
to the degree of doXor in the year 1676. Apprifed of 
his merit, in 167^ the king prefen ted him to the fee of 
Cahors; from which he was tranflated, in the following 
year, to that of Chalons on the Marne. In both thele 
iituations he diftinguilhed himfelf by the zeal and fidelity 
with which he difebarged the duties of his paftoral func¬ 
tion, by his diffufive charity, and other Chriftian virtues. 
When, in the year 1695, the archbifhopric of Paris became 
vacant by the death of Francis de Harlai, Louis XIV. 
fixed upon the bilhop of Chalons for his fuccefior. In 
his new charge, he fteadily purfued the fame courfe which 
he had followed in his other lees, (flowing himfelf the 
vigilant and affectionate paftor of his flock, and publifiiing 
excellent rules for the reformation of the clergy. Among 
other objeXs that engaged his zeal was the rooting out 
of Quietifm,^which was gaining ground in his diocefe. 
With this view he proceeded againft the perfons who 
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entertained thofe notions by judicial fentences; and he 
alfo drew his pen againft them. In 1697, lie publiflied 
“ Paftoral InftruXions on the SubjeX of Chriftian Perfec¬ 
tion and the inward Life, againft the Illufions of falfe 
Myftics.” He likewife publilhed a Paftoral Letter againft 
the Janfenifts, containing a condemnation of a book writ¬ 
ten by the abbe Barcos, entitled An Expolltion of the 
Catholic Faith on the SubjeX of Grace. The Jefuits, 
however, were not fatisfied with what he wrote againft 
their opponents, remembering that in the year 1685, 
when biftiop of Chalons, he gave his approbation to Father 
Quefnel’s Moral RefieXions, which were favourable to 
fome of the notions of-the bilhop ofYpres, and finding 
that he ftill continued to patronize that work. They 
therefore determined to direX their attack againlt the 
archbilhop; and one of their fociety, Father Doucin, gave 
the lignal of war by publifiiing, in 1698, the famous pro¬ 
blem, “ Whom are we to believe? M. d’e Noailles arch- 
bifiiop of Paris, while condemning the Expofition of Faith ; 
or, M. de Noailles bifiiop of Chalons, while approving the 
Moral Reflexions ?” The publication of this piece gave 
rife to an enmity between the Jefuits and the archbifiiop, 
which was difplayed on both lides, on various occafions, 
during the remainder of our prelate’s life. In the year ' 
1700, he prefided at an aflembly of the clergy, in which 
he procured one hundred and twenty-feven propofitions. 
to be condemned, extraXed from the works of different 
cafuifts, many of whom were Jefuits. Afterwards lie pre¬ 
fided in feveral genera! aifemblies, ordinary and extra¬ 
ordinary; of the clergy of France. 
.During the year 1700, at the inftance of the king, M. de 
Noailles was preferred to the dignity of cardinal; and 011 
this occafion Louis XIV. faid to him, “ I have more plea- 
fure in procuring for you the cardinal’s hat than you 
have in receiving it." Notvvithftanding this, the king 
was afterwards prejudiced againft him by father Tellier, 
the Jefuit, Pope Clement XI. was alfo fe. t againft him, 
and ifi’ued his famous hull of Unigenitus, on occafion of 
Quefnel's book, which Noailles had fanXioned. The car¬ 
dinal was exiled; but, after the death of Louis, Tellier was 
baniflied in his turn, and the cardinal recalled. He died 
in the year 1729, at the advanced age of feventy-eiglit. 
His learning, in general, was very refpeXable; and he 
had paid particular attention to the ftudy of the facred 
feriptures, the fathers, and divinity pofitive and moral. 
Of fociety lie was an ufeful and amiable member; in con- 
verfation he was interefting and entertaining; and lie had 
a heart fenfible to friendflup, and full of candour, frank- 
nefs, and benevolence. So numerous were the objeXs of 
his charitable attention, that they fwallovved up the whole 
of his large income; and when, after his death, his move¬ 
ables were difpofed of, and his expenfes paid, the remain¬ 
ing property did not amount to more than five hundred 
livres. In right of his archbiftiopric of Paris, lie was 
duke of St. Cloud and peer of France ; and he was alfo 
commander of the order of the Holy Giioft, patron of the 
houfe and fociety of the Sorbonne, and fuperior of the 
college of Navarre, He publi/hed fome other Paftoral 
Letters and InftruXiens, befides thofe which have been 
mentioned. Gen, Biog. 
NGAKJPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twenty- 
five miles well-fouth-weft of Arrah, 
NOA'LE, a town of Italy, in the Trevifan : nine miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Trevigio. 
NOANAGUR', a town of Bengal, in the province of 
Tipera : twenty miles north of Cornillab. Lat. 23, 45. N. 
Ion. 91. 20. E. 
NOANAGUR', or Cutchnagur, a town of Hjndoo- 
ftan, and capital ofadiftriX, in the county of Guzerat, 
near the gulf of Cutch: 178 miles weft-fouth-weft of 
Amedabad, and 108 fouth-fouth-weft of Janagur. Lat. 
22, 22. N, Ion. 62. 30. E. 
NOANAMAS', a town of South-America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Choco, chiefly inhabited by Indians: 170 miles 
north 
