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beral education, and honourable purfuits and employ¬ 
ments, followed even from the cradle. Wealth may con¬ 
fer this; but it mull be hereditary, not acquired. The 
uDitart himfelf, whatever may be his talents or opulence, 
will feldom have the fentiments and inclinations of a gen¬ 
tleman. Michelis Principles of Legiflation. 
Fair branch of noblefs, flower of chivalry, 
That with your worth the world amazed make. Spenfer. 
Dignity; greatnefs: 
Thou, whofe noblefs keeps one ftature (till, 
And one true pollute, though befieg’d with ill. B, Jonfon. 
Noblemen colledively ; now commonly written and pro¬ 
nounced noblefs'e.— His fancies fpread wonderfully among 
the noblejje. Warburton on Prodigies —The intendant ot 
Gafcony, among other magnificent feftivities, treated the 
■noble (fe of the province with a dinner and defert. Horace 
Walpole, —My enquiries and obfervations did not prefent 
to me any incorrigible vices in the noblejje ot I ranee. 
Burke. 
Let us hade to hear it, _ 
And call the noblefs to the audience. tshaliejpeare. 
NO'BLEWOMAN, f A female who is ennobled.— 
Thefe nobleiuomen malkers fpake good French unto the 
Frenchmen ; which delighted them very much, to hear 
thefe ladies fpeak to them in their own tongue. Cavendj/h's 
Life of Wolfey. . * .. 
NO'BLY, adv. Of ancient and fplendid extraction: 
Only a fecond laurel did adorn 
His colleague Catulus, though nobly born : 
He lhar’d the pride of the triumphal bay, 
But Marius won the glory of the day. Dryden. 
Greatly; illuftrioufly; magnanimoufly : 
This fate he could have Tcap’d, but would not lofe 
Honour for life, but rather nobly chofe 
Death from their fears than fafety from his own. Denham. 
Grandly; fplendidly.—There could not have been a more 
magnificent defign than that of Trajan’s pillar. Where 
could an emperor’s allies have been 16 nobly lodged, as in 
the midft of his metropolis, and on the top of fo exalted 
a monument ? Addifon on Italy. 
NO'BODY, f. No one; not anyone.—It fell to Coke’s 
turn, for whom nobody cared, to be made the facrifice ; 
and he was out of his office. Clarendon. —If in company 
you offer fomething for a jell, and nobody feconds you on 
your own laughter, you may condemn their talle, and ap¬ 
peal to better judgements ; but in the mean time you 
make a very indifferent figure. Swift's Mifcell. 
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT', a name given by Capt. 
Cook to the northern arm of Dulky Bay. 
NOBRE'GA (Manoel da), the head of the fil'd Jefuits 
that ever fet'foot in South America, a country in which 
that body of people exerted themfelves more beneficially 
than in any other part of the world. He was a native of 
Portugal; ftudied firft at Coimbra, and afterwards at Sa¬ 
lamanca; and then, returning to Coimbra, he graduated 
in canon-law. His father and uncle held high official na¬ 
tions at court, which feemed to promife him almoft any 
degree of preferment; but failing to obtain fome univer- 
fity-rank on which his heart was let, and which ought to 
have been awarded him, he rejedte'd the world, as he 
thought the world had rejected him $ and entered, in this 
lit of difguft, the newly-eftablilhed order of Jefuits in 
1544. When it was determined that Jefuit-milfionaries 
fhould be fent to Brafil, Nobrega was nominated head of 
the million; and he, with five others, fet fail with Thome 
de Soula, the firft governor-general of Brafil, in February 
1549. They immediately began that fiyltem of kindnef's 
and conciliation towards the natives of South America 
from which the Jefuits never deviated, and on which 
they eftablilhed their empire in Paraguay. Nobrega was 
as able a ftatelrnan as he was a miffionary 5 and to him it 
was owing that the French did not fucceed in eftablilhing 
themfelves in Rio Janeiro, and dividing Brafil with the 
Portuguefe, or perhaps ejecting them. He was nomi¬ 
nated vice-provincial of Brafil in 1550 ; and provincial in 
1553, when that country was made a feparate province. 
He died in 1570, at the age of fifty-three, but worn out 
with the fatigues of a miffionary life. Gen. Biog. 
NOBSQUAS'SIT, or Nobscusset, the north-eaft part 
of Yarmouth, in Barnftaple-county, Maffachufetts; in 
which are twenty-five'fait-works, that annually produce 
500 bulhels of marine fait. 
NOBUTPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Benares : 
twenty-one miles eaft of Benares. 
NOCA'RIO, a town of the illand of Corfica : twelve 
miles north-eaft of Corte. 
NO'CE, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Adige ten miles north of Trent. 
NO'CE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Orne : five miles eaft of Bellefme. 
NOCE'A, a town of European Turkey, in the Morea: 
twenty miles eaft: of Mifitra. 
NO'CENT, adj. [nocens, Lat.] Guilty ; criminal.—■ 
God made us naked and innocent, yet we prefently made 
ourfelves nocent. Hewyt's Sermons, 1658.—Secretly Catelby 
reforts to you to enquire whether it were lawful, confi- 
dering the neceffity of the time, to undertake an enter- 
prife for the advancement of the Catholick religion, 
though it were likely that, among many that were nocent, 
fome ftiould perilh that were innocent. Ld. Northampton's 
Proceed, againft Garnet, 1606.—A great fcruple arofe even, 
in the minds of the moft confident affaffinates, whether 
the nocent and the innocent might be deftroyedand perilh 
together. Bp. Pearfon's Sermon, Nov. 5, 1673.—Hurtful; 
mifchievous.—They meditate whether the virtues of the 
one will exalt or diminilh the force of the other, or cor¬ 
rect any of its nocent qualities. Watts on the Mind. 
The limbeck draws 
Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. Philips. 
NO'CENT, f. One who is criminal. Not now in ufe .— 
Catelby, coming unto Garnet, alketh, whether for the 
good and promotion of the Catholick caufe againft hers^ 
ticks, it be lawful or nor, amongft many nocents, to de¬ 
ft: roy and take away fome innocents alfo. Sir E. Coke's 
Proceed, agaivjl Garnet. 
NO'CERA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Spoleto; 
the fee of a bilhop, immediately under the pope: fixteen 
miles north-eaft of Spoleto. Lat. 43. 7. N. Ion. S2.48.E. 
Noceriana Terra, Earth of Nocera , a white earth, 
being a fpecies of bole, ufed in medicine in Germany, 
Italy, and fome other parts of the world, but not known 
in the Englilh fhops. It is found at Nocera, whence its 
name. It is now dug principally about Macerata, a city- 
in the marquilate of Ancona; and is in great efteein in 
malignant fevers, and againft the bites of venomous ani¬ 
mals. It is a denfe earth, of a greyilh-white, very hard, 
and of an infipid talle, and does not effervefee with acid 
menftruums. 
NOCERA delli PAGA'NI, a city of Naples, in Ca¬ 
labria Citra; the fee of a bilhop, fuffragan of Salerno. 
It contains twelve parilh-churches, and fix convents. 
This city was anciently called Nuceria Alphatoma: it was 
a Roman colony, and had the privilege of coining money. 
It appears a duller of villages; and, according to their 
own account, contains 30,000 inhabitants, difperfed into 
forty patches of habitations. In the thirteenth century, 
it received the name of Nocera delli Pagani to diftinguilb 
it from the town of Nocera in the duchy of Spoleto, 
mentioned above ; and is fuppofed to owe its appellation 
to a colony of Saracens, brought hither by Frederic of 
Swabia. The houfes are conftrufted of two kinds of 
ftone : the common walls are built with yellow tufa, dug 
out of the hills that lie about a mile to the eaft of the 
town ; which ftone feems unquertionably to have been 
formed by a confolidation of fubftanc.es thrown out of 
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