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and Sj'riac stiulies were begun. From 1816 to 1826 he hclil the rectorv of Scawton, in tlie North Riding of Yoriisiiire, for the Rev. Thomas "W'orsloy, afterwards master of Downing. In 1830 the archbisiiop of York presented him to the rectorj' of Molesworth, Hunts. He died Jan. 30, 1854. Mr. Oxlee, though self-taught, became master of more than 120 languages or dialects, the last being the Yuroba. He wrote The Christian Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation (Lond. 1850, 3 vols. 8vo) : — Three Sermons on the Christian Hie- rarchy^ deducing an uninterrupted Triple List of Bishop.i, etc. : — Thre ' Letters to the Archbishop ofCashel on the Apocri/phal Books of Enoch, etc. : — Thr. e Letters to Mr. C. Wellbeloved on Unitarian Error: — Three Letters to the Rev.F. Not an, an I Two Letters to the Bishop of Sal- isbury, on the Spurious Text of the Heavenly Witnesses :— A Reply to the Rev. R. Toicers, the Roman Catholic Head of Ampleforth College, near York: — Three Letters to the A rchbishop of Canterbury, on the Impropriety of lequir- ing Jews to forsake the Law ofMose-i, etc. : — Three more Letters on the Inutility (f any Attempt to Convert the Jews to the Christi in Faith in the Manner hitherto prac- ticed, with a Confutation of the Diabolarchy. He was also a contributor to V^alpy's Classical Journal; the Christian Remembrancer for 1822 ; the Voice of Israel; the Voice of Jacob ; Jewish Chronicle; but more partic- ularly of seven letters addressed to S. M., the Jew, oc- cupying HO pages in The Jewish Repository. In his work on The Christitn Doctrines, etc., the mass of learn- ing is astonishing ; through more than 1000 pages we are presented with correct extracts from earl}- and late Jewish writers, accompanied with an exact English translation. The Letters to archbishop Lawrence are filled with exceedingly rare extracts, and Dr. Nicholls, the late regius professor at Oxford, is said to have ex- pressed his wonder how the works quoted had been obtained, considering that the author's benefice was worth but £228 a year. Nearly up to the day of his death Mr. Oxlee was engaged in literary pursuits. He left behind him nianj' works yet unpublished. See Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855, p. 203 sq. ;' Darling, Cyclop. Bibing. ii, 2268; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Auth. s. v.; Kitto, Journal of Sac. Lit. April, 1854; Coleridge, Works, p. 457. (J. H.W.)
Ozanam, Antoine Frkd^ric, a distinguished French philosopher and polemic, was born at Milan April 23, 1813. He studied at the college in Lj'ons, and in 1832 went to Paris to study law. He took the degrees of M.A. and LL.D., and in 1810 was called to the professorship of foreign literature by the Acadeni}' of Sciences of Paris, a position which his thorough knowledge of English, German, Italian, and Spanish, besides Hebrew and Sanscrit, enabled liim to fill with great success. He died at Marseilles Sept. 8, 1853. Ozanam was a zealous opponent of Protestantism. Among his works, the most important is Dante et la philosophic Catholique an treizieme siecle (Paris, 1839, 8vo; 2d ed. 1845). Four Italian and one Gorman translation appeared between the first and second edi- tions. It has been very variously judged, according to the standpoint taken by the critics. Ozanam, follow- ing the example of Artaud de Montor, attempted to prove the Roman Catholic orthodoxy of Dante against
the assertions of Rosetti and Ugo Foscolo. In this Lamennais agreed with him ; only the latter main- tained that Dante's orthodoxy was but a concession made t>y him to the prevailing views of his age. Val- uable as is Ozanam's work as a sort of commentary' or key to Dante's Divina Commediu, it might have been much more so had he not entertained such ultramon- tane views. A more impartial appreciation of his author would have brought him nearer to the evan- gelical Church, which he condemned without knowing anything of its doctrines. Among his other remarkable works are Deux chancelii-rs d'Angleterre, Bacon de Veru- lam et St. Thomas de Canterbery (Paris, 1836, 8vo and 12mo) : — Les Poetes Franciscains en Italie au treizieme siecle (ibid. 1852, 8vo), valuable to the theological stu- dent who desires an acquaintance with the period of which it treats, for it gives full portraits of St. Fran- cis, Fra Pacitico, St. Bonaventura, Giacomino di Vero- na, Thomas de Celano, the author oi Dies Irm (q. v.), Giacopone da Todi, the author of the famous hymn. Cur Mundus Militat, and the famous Stabat Mater Dolorosa. There is also a History of Cirilization in the Fifih Century, which was translated into English bj' Glynn, and was published at London in 1859, in 2 vols, post 8vo. Besides, Ozanam contributed largely to the Correspondant, L' Universite Catholique, and i' Ere Xouvelle. His complete works were published after his death, under the title Ouvres completes de A.F. Ozanam (Paris, 1855, 8 vols. 8vo). Ozanam was one of the eight students who, in 1833, founded the Societe de St. Vinant de Paul, which has since become so powerful in France. See Ampere, Notice, in the Journal des De- bats, Oct. 9 and 12, 1858 ; Legeay, Etude Biogr. stir Ozanam (Paris, 1854, 8vo) ; Le Correspondant, Sept. 26, 1853 ; Collombet, Biographie de F. Ozanam (1853) ; Lacordaire, Conferences, v, 267 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxviii, 1018; Revue Chretienne, Oct. 1869, p. 579. (J. H.W.)