Nash, Frederick K., a Presbyterian minister, was born at Hillsborough, N. C, Feb. 14, 1813. He was a child of the covenant, and many of his relatives were ministers of the Gospel, With such associations and counsellors, he soon identified himself with God's peo- ple. During his college course at the University of North Carolina he became converted, and on return- ing he united himself with the Hillsborough Church. Though young, he was soon after elected a ruling elder. He studied law in his father's office ; was admitted to the bar, but while practicing he was led to consider the claims of the ministry. Convinced that it was his duty thus to serve God, he placed himself under the care of Orange Presbytery, N. C, April 24, 1835, and immedi- ately commenced his studies in the Union Theological Seminary at Prince Edward, Va. In 1837 he was li- censed, and in 1838 was ordained pastor of Unity Church. This relation was dissolved in 1842. In 1843 he was without any regular charge. During 1844-45 he la- bored as stated supply for Kutherford and Little Britain churches, in the bounds of Concord Presbyter\\ In 184(3 he began preaching in Centre Church, and there he labored until he died, Dec. 31, 1861. Mr. Nash was an active member of the presbytery and synod. He was chairman of the committee to prepare the resolutions adopted by his presbytery when they seceded I'rom the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. He was also appointed as a commissioner to the Southern Assembly. As a preacher, he was clear, practical, and pungent, with the special ability of saying the right word at the right time. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Al- manac, 18(53, p. 193. (J. L. S.)
Nash, Michael, a Wesleyan preacher noted as a writer on dogmatic theologj-, flourished near the close of last century. But little is known of his personal his- tory. Of his works, however, several remain of value to this day. He wrote an able defence of the Christian truths against the attacks of modern infidelity in his Paine's Age of Reason measured hj the Standard of Truth (1794, 8vo). See Diet, of Living A uthors (Lond. 1816,8vo), S.V.
Nash, Treadway Russel, an English divine noted for his antiquarian labors, was born near the opening of last century. He was educated at Worces- ter College, Oxford, where he took his degree of D.D. in 1758. He was a man of fortune, and died at his seat in Worcestershire in 1811. Dr. Nash published collec-
tions for a history of Worcestershire (2 vols, fol.) : — a splendid edition of Hudibras (3 vols. 4to) : — and some papers in the A rchceologia. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uth. s. v.
Nasi, Abraham, ben-Chua, surnamed the As- tronomer, a Jewish savant of note (in Marseilles), was born in 1065, and died in 1136. He held the office of Zachib es-Shorta, prsefectus praetorianibus, and was much esteemed for his proficiency in astronomy. His writings are highly valued. He wrote — 1, a description of the form of the earth, the arrangement of the firma- ment, and revolutions of the planets (Vl^xn TT^IJ O
2, a highly moral work,' entitled Meditations of a Peni- tent Soul, on reaching the Gates of Repentance CjT^^i" 0 dSiil, edit., with an essay by S. L. Eapaport, by E. Freimann (Leips. 1860), in four parts : (n) on man's ori- gin and wondrous nature ; (6) on the duties of life ; (c) on the return to God by penitence ; {d) on dying well, and on the close of this life : — 3, a work on arithmetic and the intercalation :— 4, another on the planets, the two spheres, and the Greek, Roman, and INIohammedan cal- endars : — 6, a work on geometry, witli an explanation of spherical triangles, and the conversion of angles and circles {Mishnath ha-Middoth, the first geometrical work edited in Hebrew by Steinschneider [Berl. 1864]): — 6, a treatise on music, and on Megillath ha-Megaleh, the volume of the Revealer, on the redemption of Israel, the resurrection of the dead, and the advent of Messiah, the date of which he ventured to predict by an astronomical computation (comp. his "l^iai'rt "(IS'^n D on the mathematical and technical chronology of the Hebrew, Nazarites, Mohammedans, etc. Printed for the first time and edited, in Hebrew, by H. Filipowski [Lond. 1851]), and which should have taken place, according to him, in the j'ear 5118 of the world=A.D. 1358. See Griitz, Hist, of the Jews, vi, 1 10 ; Braunschweiger, Gesch. d. Juden in den Roman. Staaten, p. 59 sq. ; Furst, Bibl. Judaica, i, 6 ; De Rossi, Dizionario, s. v. (Germ. transL), p. 81; Lindo, Hist, of the Jews in Spain, p. 53; Finn, Sephardim, p. 189. (B. P.)
Nasi, Jehudah. See Hakkodesh.
Nasiah (ni<"'biil",3), Moses ben-Isaak, a Jew- ish writer who flourished some time during the Middle Ages in England. When and where he was born it is difficult to say. All that is known of him is that he wrote a grammar entitled D'^'l'''^? "(i'ib, the preface of which has been published by L. Dukes in L. B. d. Ori- ents, 1844, c. 518, 519. Later he wrote a dictionary under the title DtH'^atl "lED, in 180 sections, with an elaborate introduction, entitled D^'l^'d "I"1D1'' which, based on the labors of Ibn-Chajug (q. v.), Ibn-Ganach (q. v.), and especially Parchon, endeavors to surpass them in completeness and logical arrangement. — FUrst, Bihl. Jud. iii, 18; Kalisch, Hebrew Grammar (Lond. 1863), ii, 28; L. Dukes, Ausfuhrliche Notiz iiber Moses ibn-Nasia, wie auch A uszUge aits seinen Werken, reprint- ed in the Jeiuish Chronicle, 1849, No. 37, 38, 41^3, 46, 4». (B. P.)