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under his father, and fucceeded him in his employment; 
nor does he feem to have had any other guide in the im¬ 
provement of his art than his own genius. He was near 
forty years of age when he was brought into notice by 
the fuperintendant Fouquet, for whom he laid out the 
magnificent gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte, fo celebrated 
by La Fontaine. In this work he was the creator of thofe 
porticoes, covered walks, grottoes, treiliages, labyrinths, 
See. in which the wonders of ornamental gardening, ac¬ 
cording to the talle which was then prevalent, confided; 
and, however this tafte may be at prefent depreciated, it 
is but juft to give the praife of uncommon talents to one 
who could bring it to acknowledged perfection from the 
efforts of his own imagination. Louis XIV. charmed 
with the magnificence ofLe Notre’s plans, employed him 
in the decoration of all his favourite refidences ; and his 
art was difplayed at VerfaiUes, Trianon, St. Germain, 
Meudon, Fontainebleau, &c. Le Notre, in 1678, went to 
Rome, and travelled in Italy, where, it is faid, he found 
nothing in the molt celebrated gardens that he had not 
deviled in thofe of his own planning. It appears that 
lie was fome time in England, probably on the invitation 
of Charles II. and that he laid out St. James’s and Green¬ 
wich parks, “ no great monuments (fays Mr. Walpole) 
of his invention.” His general reputation abroad may 
be eftimated from a line of Pope’s, in his-Epiltle on the 
Ufe of Riches, where, fpeaking of tafte, he joins the 
names of “ Jones and Le Notre.” This artift was regard¬ 
ed with particular kindnefs and favour by his royal maf- 
ter, whom, in return, he idolized. Being a man of great 
feeling and vivacity, he is faid to have expreifed his af¬ 
fection for the king by familiar embraces; but Voltaire 
choofes to diferedit fuclv a violation of etiquette. In 
1675, his long lervices were rewarded by letters of 110- 
blefl'e, and the crofs of St. Michael. The king would 
alfo have given him a coat of arms, but he replied that 
he was already poffefled of one, confiding of three fnails 
furmounted by a cabbage : “ Can I, (added he) ever for¬ 
get my dear fpade, to which I am indebted for all your 
majefty’s goodnefs ?” At the age of fourfeore he de- 
iired permiffion to retire, which the king granted, on con¬ 
dition that he would fome times come to fee him. He 
died at Paris in 1700, at the age of eighty-feven. Le 
Notre is faid to have had a fine tafte for the arts in gene¬ 
ral, efpecially for that of painting ; and fome pieces of 
his execution, “of an ineftimable value,” are mentioned 
as exifting in the royal cabinet, but of what kind we are 
not informed. Moreri. 
NOS'TRIL, f. [nEey-? 5 yjil,Sax. nofe, andByftl, a hole: 
formerly written nojithril, as by Chaucer and Spenfer; 
and not wholly difufed late in the feventeenth century.] 
The cavity in the nofe,—The fecondary aftion fublifteth 
in concomitancy with the other; fo the nojlrils are ufeful 
both for refpiration and finelling, but the principal ufe is 
fmeliing. Brown. —Stinks which the nojlrils ftraight abhor 
are not the molt pernicious. Bacon s Nat Hiji. 
He form’d thee, Adam, and in thy nojlrils breath’d 
The breath of life. 3 Iilton's P. L. 
NOSTRUM,/ [Latin.] A medicine not yet made pub¬ 
lic, but remaining in fome fingle hand.—What drop or 
nojlrum can this plague remove ? Pope. 
NOT, adv. [nare, noire, noclvc, Sax.] The particle of 
negation, or refufal.—His countenance likes me not. 
Shahefpeare. —The man held his peace, to wit whether 
the Lord had made his journey profperous or not. Gen. 
xxiv. 21.—The queftion is, May I do it, or may I not do 
it? Sanderfon. —He is invulnerable, I not. Milton sP.L. 
Let each man do as to his fancy feems; 
I wait nut, I, till you have better dreams. Dryden. 
This day, be bread and peace my lot; 
All pile beneath the fun 
Thou know’ll if bell bellow’d or not, 
And let thy will be done. Pope's Univ. Prayer. 
NOT 
The firft member of a negative fentence, followed by nor 
or neither. —I was not in lafety, neither had I reft. Job. —■ 
Not for price nor reward. IJaiah. —A word of exception. 
—vl will for this afflidl the feed of David, but not for ever.’ 
Kings.—A word of prohibition, or deprecation.—Stand 
in awe, and fin nut. PJ’alms. —Forfake me not, O Lord ; O 
my God, be not far from me. PJ'alms. —It denotes colla¬ 
tion or extinction. No more.—Thine eyes are upon me, 
and I am not. Job vii. 8.—Not only; elliptic-ally.—He 
therefore that defpifeth, defpifeth not man, but God. j- 
Thejj. iv. 8.—Delpifeth not man [only], but God. Whitby 
on 1 TheJJ. iv. 8. 
He has' given hoftile ftrokes, not in the prefence 
Of dreaded juftice, but on the minifters 
That do dillribute it. Shakefpcare's Coriolanns. 
NOT-DESERVER, / One who merits not fuch treat¬ 
ment : 
If thou be indeed, as men thee call, 
The world’s Great Parent, the moll kind preferver 
Of living wights, the foveraine lord of all. 
How falls it then that with thy furious fervour 
Thou doll afflift as well the not-deferver 
As him that doth thy lovely hefts defpife ? Spenfer. 
NOT’s I'SLAND, a fmall illand near the coaft of Vir¬ 
ginia. Lat. 38.38. N. Ion. 76.5. W. 
NO'TA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Smaland : 
thirty-nine miles fouth-weftof Wexio. 
NOTABLE, adj. [Fr. from nolubilis, Lat.] Remarka¬ 
ble ; memorable; obfervable: it is now fcarcely ufed but 
in irony.—The fuccefs of thofe wars was too notable to be 
unknown to your ears; which, it feems, all worthy fame 
hath glory to come unto. Sidney. —The fame is notified 
in the notable/l part of the diocefs. Whitgift. —Two 
young men appeared notable in ftrength, excellent in 
beautyq and comely in apparel. 2 3 Iac. iii. 26.—-They 
bore two or three charges from thehorfe with notable cou¬ 
rage, and without being broken. Clarendon. —Both ar¬ 
mies lay ftill, without any notable aftion, for the fpace of 
ten days. Clarendon. 
NOT'ABLE, adj. Careful; buftling : in contempt and 
irony ; as, a notable woman.—This abfolute monarch was 
as notable a guardian of the fortunes as of the lives of 
his fubjefls. When any man grew rich, to keep him from 
being dangerous to the ftate, he lent for all his goods. 
Add/Jon's Freeholder. 
NOTABLE, f. A thing worthy to be obferved.—Var- 
ro’s aviary is ftill fo famous, that it is reckoned for one of 
thofe notables which foreign nations record. Addijim. —A 
member of a parliamentary aflembly formerly fuhiifting in 
France, and revived, for a Ihort time, at the beginning of 
the late revolution. See the article France, vol. vii. 
p. 764. 
NO'TABLENESS, / Remarkablenefs ; worthinefs of 
oblervation.—Neither could the notab/enejs of the place 
make us to mark it. Homily againjl Idolatry. 
NOT'ABLF.NESS, appearance of bufinefs ; importance : 
in contempt. 
NOTABLY, adv. Memorably: remarkably.—This 
we fee notably proved, in that the oft polling of hedges 
conduces much to their lading. Bacon's Nat. Hiji. —Here¬ 
in doth the endlefs mercy of God notably appear, that 
he vouchfafeth to accept of our repentance, wdien we re¬ 
pent, though not in particular as we ought to do. Perkins. 
NOT'ABLY, adj. With confequence; with lhow ot 
importance : ironically.—Mention Spain or Poland, and 
he talks very notably; but, if you go out of the Gazette, 
you drop him. Addijim. 
NOTACAN'THUS, / in ichthyology. See Acan- 
THONOTUS, vol i. 
NOTARIAL, adj. [from notary.] Takenjby a notary'.— 
It may be called an authentick writing, though not a 
publiclc inllrument, through want of a notarial evidence. 
Ay life. 
NOTARY, 
