Nott, Handel Gershom, an American divine of some note, was born in Saybrook, Conn., Nov. 10, 1779 ; graduated from Yale College in 1823 ; took a the- ological course in the Yale Seminary; and in 1826 was settled over the First Congregational Cluirch in Nashua, N. H. Subsequently he became a Baptist, and accepted the position of agent of the American Bethel Society, and was for three years Bethel chaplain in Buffalo. Later he preached in Bath, Waterville, and Keunebunk- port, JIaine, remaining at the latter place for a period of twelve years. His health demanding a change, he accepted a call at Avon, N. Y., in July, 1860; and after a few years removed to Rochester, where he continued to reside until his death, May 3, 1873.
Nott, Henry Junius, an American educator, was the son of the eminent jurist, Abraham Nott, and was born on the Pacolet River, South Carolina, Nov. 4, 1797. He was educated at South Carolina College, class of 1812. He then w-ent abroad and studied jurisprudence, but shortly after his return accepted the professorship of philosophy and language in his alma mater. On his way home from New York he Avas shipwrecked, and perished at sea, Oct. 13, 1837. Mr. Nott was a frequent and valued contributor to the Southern Review. He also published Novelettes of a Traveller (New York, 1834, 12mo).
Nott, Samuel (1), D.D., a Congregational min- ister, brother of Dr. Eliphalet Nott, was born Jan. 23, 1754, in Saybrook, Conn. He graduated at Yale College in 1780 ; was ordained pastor in Franklin, Conn., March 13, 1782, where he remained until his death. May 26, 18.52. He did full parochial duty until his ninety-fourth year, and was in many respects a worthy branch of that noble family to which he belonged. He published a number of occasional Sennons. See Sprague, ^1 nnals of the Amer. Pidpit, ii, 190,
Nott, Samuel (2), a noted American missionary of the Congregational Church, was born at Franklin. Conn., in 1788; was educated at Union College, class of 1808 ; and studied divinity at Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1810. He was or- dained Feb. 6, 1812, and went out to India with the first band of missionaries sent to that coimtrv bv the
American Board of Foreign Missions. He returned from India in 1816, and taught in New York until 1822. In 1823 he became pastor at Galway, N. Y. ; in 1829 he removed to Wareham, Mass., where he preached until 1849, and then taught for one year. He died at Hart- ford, Conn., June 1, 1809. Mr. Nott wrote, Sixteen Years' Preaching and Procedure at Warehain, 3Iass. (1845, 8vo): — Slavery and the Remedy, etc. (1856, 8vo).
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Nouet, Jacques, a French Jesuit, was born at Mans in 1605. He entered the order about 1623. After completing his studies he devoted himself successively to teaching and to preaching, in which he was at first very successful. But having ventured to attack in the pulpit the work of Antoine Arnauld, La frequenie com- munion, he was at first silenced by a sharp answer of Arnauld, and afterwards obliged to apologize publicly before an assembly of bishops. Nouet now renounced preaching, and became successively rector of the col- leges of Alen^on and Arras. He died at Paris in 1680. He wrote, Remerciments du consistoire de R, aux the- ologiens d'A lengon, disciples de St. A iigustin, against ab- bot Lenoir: — La pi-esence de Jesus-Christ dans le tres- saint sacrement, pour servir de repionse au ministre qui a ecrit contre la petpetuite de la foi (2d ed. Paris, 1667, 18mo). It is claimed that Turenne was converted to the Roinish Church by reading this work. Nonet's reputation, however, rests chiefly on his ascetic works, such as Traite de la devotion a Funge gardien (Paris, 1661, 12mo; an Italian translation of it was published at Bo- logna) : — and the most important of them all, E Homme d'Oraison, comprising a number of w-orks published at various times, and entitled E Homme d'Oraison, sa con- duite dans la voie de Dieu, contenant toute Veconomie de la meditation, de Voraison effective et de la contemplation (Paris, 1674, 2 vols. 8vo) : — EHomme d'Oraison, ses meditations et entreiicns pour tons les jours de I'unnee, fragments of which were published by Muguet in 1677, 1678, and 1683 (complete by Herissant, 1765, 10 vols. 8vo; Paris, 1780; Lyons, 1830 and 1845, Umoy.—E Homme d'Oraison, ses lecltires spirituelles pendant tout le cours de I'annee (Paris, 1679, 4to) : — L' Homme d'Orcrison, ses retraites (1765, 1780, 1830, 1845, 6 vols.). He wrote also. Meditations et enti'etiens sur le bon usage des in- dulgences et sur les prepai-ations necessaires pour gagner le juhile (Paris, 1677 and 1701, 4to): — Retruite pour se preparer a la mart (ibid. 1679, 8vo) •• — iMeditations spirituelles (ibid. 1839, 12mo) : — Solitude de huit jours du reverend p'ere Jacques Nouet, in MS. at the Imperial Library at Paris, under the No. 3920. Dr. Pusey trans- lated one of Nonet's works under the title of IJfe of Jesus Christ in Glory (Lond. 1847, small 8vo). See Avertissement sur quelques se}-mons preches a Paris, in Arnauld, Gu(v?-es, vol. xxvii; N. Desportes, Bibl. du Maine ; B. Haureau, Hist, litteraire du Maine, iv, 297. — Hoefer, N^ouv. Bioq. Generale, xxxviii, 310; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. ii, 2217. (J. N. P.)