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figures in one, the other has a large tree and a river in the 
fore-ground, and a man tending (heep at a diftance; a pair 
of paftoral landfcapes, with figures in the drefs of Arca¬ 
dian fheplierds ; a pair of landfcapes, into one of which 
are introduced Diana and Endymion, and in the other 
Venus and Cupid ; and another is Venus repofing on the 
banks of a river, and Cupid fwimming in it; a pair of hif- 
torical landfcapes, in one of which is Narciflus admiring 
liimfelf; and the other is a paftoral fcene, with a Ihepherd 
playing the tabor, accompanied with his flock; all of folio 
dimenfions. 
NEVE I'SLAND, a fmall ifland of Scotland, on the 
north-weft coaft of the ifland of Hay : four miles north- 
eaft of Tonvore. 
NEV'EL, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Po- 
lotlk: fixty-four miles north-eaft of Polotik. Lat. 59.15.N. 
Ion. 29. 54. E. 
NEV'EL, a town of the Netherlands, in the diftrift of 
Ghent, containing 2938 inhabitants. 
NEU'ENBERG, a town of Bavaria, in the county of 
Feldkirch : three miles north-weft of Feldkirch. 
NEU'ENBORG, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Oldenburg : twenty-two miles north of Oldenburg. 
NEU'ENBURG, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine : two miles fouth of Hagenbach. 
NEU'ENBURG. See Neuburg. 
NEU'ENBURG, a town of Wurtemberg. In fome 
old pits in the neighbourhood of this town are found 
great quantities of thofe excellent iron-ftones, called 
glafs-heads or blood-ftones; and, from their fize and 
figure, bohn-erze, or bean-ore. It is fixteen miles eaft of 
Raftadt, and twenty-two weft of Stuttgart. 
NEU'ENBURG, a town of the duchy of Courland : 
eighteen miles weft-north-weft of Mittaw. 
NEUENDAMM', a town of the New Mark of Bran¬ 
denburg: nine miles north of Cuftrin, and thirteen fouth 
of Soldin. Lat. 52. 48. N. Ion. 14. 52. E. 
NEU'ENDORF, a town of Weftphalia, in the Old 
Mark of Brandenburg four miles eaft of Gardeleben. 
NEU'ENDORF, a town of Pruifia, in the province of 
Pomerelia : ten miles fouth of Marienburg. 
NEU'ENDORF (Bohmifch), a town of the Upper Mark 
of Brandenburg, on the Havel, oppofite Potzdam, of 
which it may be confidered a part: inhabited by a colony 
of Bohemians. 
NEU'ENKIRCHEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Saxe Lauenburg ; three miles fouth of Ottendorf. 
NEU'ENKIRCHEN, a town of Germany, in the 
county of Verden : fourteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Ro- 
tenburg. 
NEU'ENKIRCHEN, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Rietberg : three miles north of Rietberg. 
NEU'ENKIRCHEN, a town of Auftria: twelve miles 
fouth-weft of Ebenfurth. 
NEU'ENPLOSS, a town of German, in the principality 
of Culmbach : fix miles north-weft of Bayreuth. 
NEU'ENRODE, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Henneberg : three miles fouth of Saltzungen. 
NEU'ENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Hohenlohe, which gives a title of diftinftion to 
a branch of the houfe of Hohenlohe: three miles eaft of 
Ohringen, and ten fouth-eaft of Mechmuhl. 
NEV'ER, adv. [_ne ever, naejape, Sax. ne asppe, not ever; 
Goth, niaivi, i. e. ne and air.] At no time.— Never any 
thing was fo unbred as that odious man. Congreve. — 
Death ftill draws nearer, never feeming near. Pope. 
By its own force deftroy’d, fruition ceas’d ; 
And, always weary’d, I was never pleas’d. Prior. 
It is ufed in a form of fpeech handed down by the beft 
writers, but lately accufed, I think with-juftice, of fole- 
cifm ; as. He is millaken, though never fo wife. It is now 
maintained, that propriety requires it to be exprefied 
thus, He is miftaken though ever fo wife ; that is, He is 
miftaken how wi fefoever he be. The common mode can 
only be defended by fupplying a very lurlh and unpre- 
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cedented ellipfis; he is miftaken, though fo wife as never 
was any : fuch, however, is the common ufe of the word, 
among the beft authors. Dr. Johnfon.—“ Be the diftance 
never lb remote:” Some have thought this mode of ex- 
preflion incongruous and ungrammatical: but never is 
the fame as not ever; and the fentence is to be filled up 
thus : “ Be the diftance not [near, but] ever fo remote.” 
Addifon’s Spedt. N° 590. This, then, is one of thofe el¬ 
liptical forms which are to be explained “ by obferving 
nicely the pofture of the mind in difeourfing,” (to ufe 
Mr. Locke’s w-ords,) and not by attending merely to the 
obvious fenfe of the terms employed. For, in difeourfing, 
we love to contract our ideas, though the oppofition be 
not always, or but imperfectly exprefled. NeverJb remote , 
if we regard this pofture of the mind, is, therefore, as in¬ 
telligible, and as proper, as ever Jo remote; and, till of 
late, was more commonly ufed. We now fay ever fo re¬ 
mote ; more clearly indeed, but with fomething lefs force; 
for never Jb implies an effort, or vehemence in afferting, 
which ever Jo has not. However, as perfpicuity is the main 
objedl of grammar, I acknowledge it to be a good general 
rule to avoid not only real but feeming incongruities of 
fpeech. Bp. Hurd. —Be it never fo true which we teach the 
world to believe; yet, if once their affections begin to be 
alienated, a fmall thing perfuadeth them to change their 
opinions. Hooker. —In a living creature, though never I'o 
great, the fenfe and theaffedfs of any one part of the body, 
inftantly make a tranfeurfion throughout the Whole body. 
Bacon .—Death may be fudden to him, though it comes 
by never fo flow degrees. Whole Duty of Man .—He that 
fhuts his eyes againlk a fmall light, would not be brought 
to fee that which he had no mind to fee, let it be placed in 
never fo clear a light, and never fo near him. Attcrbury .—■ 
In no degree.—Whofoever has a friend to guide him, may 
carry his eyes in another man’s head, and yet fee never the 
worfe. South .—It feems in fome phrafes to have the fenfe 
of an adjeCtive. Not any; but in reality it is not ever .—He 
anfivered him to never a word, infomuch that the gover- 
nour marvelled. St. Mattli. xxvii. 14.—There would be 
never a plain text. Atterbury'sSermons .—It is much ufed 
in compofition ; of which fome examples are fubjoined. 
NEV'ER-BLUSHING, adj. Incapable of bluihing; im¬ 
pudent : 
Norton hung down his never-blujhing head, 
And all was hulh’d, as folly’s felf lay dead. Pope. 
NEV'ER-CEASING, adj. Continual; having no in- 
termiflion: 
So corn in fields, and in the garden flowers, 
Revive and raife themfelves with mod’rate ftiowers : 
But, overcharg’d with never-ceajing rain. 
Become too moift. Waller. 
NEV'ER-DYING, adj. Not to be deftroyed or extin- 
guiftied : 
But a fmooth and ftedfaft mind. 
Gentle thoughts and calm defires, 
Hearts with equal love combin’d. 
Kindle never-dying fires. Carew. 
NEV'ER-ENDING, adj. Having no end; continual 5 
tedious. 
NEV'ER-ERRING, adj. Infallible; incapable of error. 
—Leucippus, with his never-erring dart. Drydcn. 
NEV'ER-FADING, adj. Unfading; retaining its vi¬ 
gour : 
Not Thracian Orpheus Ihould tranfeend my lays, 
Nor Linus, crown’d with never-fading bays. Dryden. 
NEV'ER-FAILING, adj. Always correct ; not deceiv¬ 
ing.—Nature aflureth us, by never-failing experience, that 
our times upon the earth have neither conftancy nor du¬ 
rability. Raleigh. 
Your never-failing fword made war to ceafe. 
And now you heal us with the a£ts of peace. Waller. 
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