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Sour is in-his dignity, life, chaftity, wealth, good name, or 
any way, juftly offended, or by us bindred. Perkins. —The 
gofpel allows no fuch term as a ftranger •, makes every man 
my neighbour. Sprat's Serm. 
NEIGHBOUR, adj. Near to another; adjoining; next; 
neighbouring. — I long’d the neighbour town to fee. 
Spellfer'sSliep. Cal. Jan. —God overthrew Sodom and Go¬ 
morrah, and the neighbour cities thereof. Jer. i. 40. —He 
fent fuch an addition of foot, as he could draw out of Ox¬ 
ford and the neighbour garrifons. Clarendon. 
To NEIGH'BOUR, v. a. To adjoin to; to confine on. 
Thefe grow on the leifurely-afcending hills that neighbour 
the lb ore. Sandys's Journey. 
Wholefome berries thrive and ripen belt, 
Neighbour'd by fruit of bafer quality. Shakefp. Hen. V. 
To acquaint with ; to make near to : 
That being of fo young days brought up with him, 
And fince fo neighbour'd to his youth and haviour. 
Shakejpeare . 
To NEIG H'BOUR, v. n. To inhabit the vicinity : 
As a king’s daughter, being in perfon fought 
Of divers princes who do neighbour near, 
On none of them can fix a conftant thought. Davies. 
NEIGHBOURHOOD, f. Place adjoining. One in the 
neighbourhood mortally lick of the fmall-pox, defiring the 
doclorto come to him. Tell. 
I could not bear 
To leave thee in the neighbourhood of death, 
But flew in all the hafte of love to find thee. Addifon. 
State of being near each other.—Confider feveral Hates in 
& neighbourhood-, in order to preferve peace between thefe 
Hates, it is neceflary they fliould be formed into a ba¬ 
lance. Swift. —Thole that live within reach of commu¬ 
nication : 
How ill mean neighbourhood your genius fuits ? 
To live like Adam midft an herd of brutes ! Harte. 
NEIGHBOURING, adj. Near; within view : 
Juft as he fpoke, I faw young Hodge 
Come o’er a neighb'ring gate: 
He feiz’d my hand, and cry’d, Dear girl, 
I fear I’ve made,you wait. Vaitxhull Song. 
NEIGHBOURLINESS, f. State or quality of being 
neighbourly. Scott. 
NEIGHBOURLY, adj. Becoming a neighbour; kind; 
civil.—He fteals my cuftomers ; twelve he has under 
bonds never to return; judge if this be neighbourly deal- 
’ing. Arbutlinot. 
The Woodberry fo nigh and neighbourly doth live 
With Abberley his friend. Drayton. 
'NEIGHBOURLY, adv. With focial civility —Being 
neighbourly admitted, by the cotirtefy of England, to 
hold poflelfions in our province, a country better than 
their own. Milton's Obferv. on the Articles of Peace. 
NEIGHBOURSHIP, f. State of being near each other: 
How happy are the dead, who quietly reft 
Beneath thefe Hones ! each by his kindred laid, 
Still in a hallow’d neighbourjhip with thofe 
Who when alive his focial converfe fhar’d. 
Mijs Baillie's Series of Plays on the Pajions. 
NEIGH'ING, f. The voice of a horfe or mare.—The 
fnorting of his horfes was heard from Dan : the whole 
land trembled at the found of the neighing of his ftrong 
ones. Jer. viii. 16. 
NEILD (James), an Englilh gentleman, well known 
for his adtive benevolence in vifiting prifons, and doing 
every thing in his power to alleviate the dillrefles of their 
wretched inhabitants. A Memoir of his Life, written by 
himfelf, has been publiflied with the Memoirs of Dr. 
Lettlbm; and we lhall copy fuch parts of it as are necefi- 
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fary to convey a proper idea of the career of this follower 
of the benevolent Howard. 
“ I was born May 24, 1744, at Knutsford in Chelhire, 
in the neighbourhood of which my family poflefled forne 
good eftates. My father died when I was too young to 
retain the llighteft remembrance of him, leaving myfeif, 
three brothers, and one lifter, to the care of our mother, 
who carried on the bufinefs of a linen-draper. She was a 
woman of merit and piety, and devoted herfelf to the 
bringing up, and virtuoufly educating, her children. I 
palfed through the ordinary courfe of education at the 
town where I was born, with tolerable fuccefs, but quitted 
it before I was thirteen, and went to live with my uncle, 
who farmed one of his own eftates; with him I continued 
about two years ; but, not liking the farming bufinefs, I 
folicited my mother to put me apprentice to fome trade or 
profeflion. She at length placed me with Mr. Hemming, 
the king’s goldi’mith. After a Ihoft trial, I dilliked the 
bufinefs; but in this connexion I was enabled to choofe 
for myfeif, and foon agreed with a jeweller. Having a 
mechanical turn, I had here ample fcope to indulge it; 
and in the latter part of my apprenticefliip made many 
curious articles, (one of which was a man of war in full 
fail, with guns on-board, which I let in the head of a 
ring,) with which I waited upon feveral of the nobility 
and gentry who patronized genius; and among others, 
one of the vice-prendents of the Society of Arts. Here I 
had frequent opportunities of meeting men of genius and 
learning, and of cultivating acquaintance which was of 
the greateft fervice to me afterwards. We had an old 
German in our Ihop, a good cbemift, and he took great 
pleafure in communicating knowledge to me; till, in one 
of my experiments, I had nearly dellroyed myfeif, and 
blown up the worklhop. This put an end to my chernif- 
try, in which the injudicious ule of quickfilver had iike- 
wife done my nerves fome injury. To the Hated hours 
of work I generally added one or two daily; fometimes 
learning to engrave ; fometimes to model; fometimes to 
draw. I was extremely afiiduous in whatever I began, 
but wanted patience to make myfeif perleft, before a 
frelh purfuit engaged my attention. I learned to fence 
tolerably well, and was very expert with the fingle-ftick. 
In 1762, the young mr, who had been my eider ap¬ 
prentice, got embarrafied, and thrown into the King’s 
Bench for debt. As loon as I was acquainted with his 
fituation, I vifited him. There appeared nothing of what 
I conceived to be a prifon except the door of admilfion, 
and high walls. There was a coffee-room and a tap-room, 
both filled with perfons drinking, though it was Sunday ; 
and I had never before feen fuch a number of profligates 
and proftitutes, unabaflied, without fears, without bluflies. 
I thought, to be fure, all the wicked people in London 
had got together there. With this imprefnon I haftened 
to his mother’s, who lived in Denmark-ftreet, and told 
her to get him out diredtly, or he would be loft, he would 
be ruined for ever. I vifited him feveral times during his 
confinement, which was not of long duration, nor did it 
feemany punifhment: he felt much lefs forhimfelr than I 
felt for him. What became of him after he was liberated 
I know not. 
(( My ideas of a prifon not being at all anfwered in the 
King’s Bench, I procured admilfion into Newgate, as far 
as the'prefs-yard and the room extending - over the ftreet, 
which had a windmill-ventilator. In this room all the 
prifoners were in irons, and, amongft them, one, a very 
ftout man, feemingly at the point ot death. Thctap-room 
was lighted by lamps, though it was noon-day, and itruck 
me with horror: the Ihocking imprecations, and the rat¬ 
tling of the chains, the miferable wretches ragged and 
drunk, frightened me fo, that it was fome time before I 
durft venture into another prifon. I had gone alone into 
the tap, without knowing any perfon for whom I could 
inquire, and was glad to leave a (hilling for a gallon of 
beer to fecure my perfon from infillt. 
“ Aboui- 
