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172 O Z E 
a paflion by her modefty, virtue, and fweet temper. With 
her he enjoyed an uncommon degree of domeftic happi- 
nefs fo long as (lie lived ; and he had twelve children by 
her, the greateft part of whom died young. 
For feveral years M. Ozanam derived a confiderable in¬ 
come from teaching the mathematics at Paris, principally 
to young foreigners; and he lived happy in the acquaint¬ 
ance and efteem of men of chara&er and literature. In 
the year 1701 he fuftained an irreparable lofs by the death 
of his wife ; and this misfortune did not come alone : 
for, about the fame time, the breaking-out of the war, 
on account of the Spanifh fucceflion, proved the occafion 
of depriving him of almoft all his pupils, who were 
obliged to quit Paris. Thefe accumulated diftrefling cir- 
cumftances reduced him to a melancholy (late; under 
which, however, he received fome relief and amufement 
from the honour of being admitted, in the fame year, an 
eleve of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Afterwards, 
when folicited to receive under his inftru&ions fome fo¬ 
reign noblemen, he refufed to engage with them, being 
pofl'efied of a perfuafion that he fhould not live long 
enough to go through their intended courfe. He died 
of a ftroke of apoplexy in 1717, at the age of feventy- 
feven. 
M. Ozanam was diftinguifhed by a mild and calm dif- 
pofition, a cheerful temper under his greateft diftrelTes, 
and a generofity almoft unparalleled. His manners were 
fimple and irreproachable; and he was fincerely pious, 
and zealoufly devout; but with theological controverfies 
he ftudioufly avoided to meddle ; and was accuftomed to 
fay, “ that it was the bufinefs of the Sorbonne todifcufs, 
of the pope to decide, and of a mathematician to go to 
heaven in a right line.” He publilhed a great number of 
ufeful books : fuch as, 1. Pra&ical Geometry, contain¬ 
ing the Theory and Pra&ice of Trigonometry, Longime- 
try, &c. 1684, nmo. 2. Tables of Sines, Tangents, and 
Secants, and the Logarithms of Sines and Tangents, and 
of Numbers from Ten to Ten Thoufand, &c. 1685, 8vo. 
3. A Treatife of Lines of the firft Order; of the Con- 
ftru&ion of Equations ; and of Geometrical Places, &c. 
1687, 4to. 4. The UTe of the Compafles of Proportion, 
&c. with a Treatife on the Divifion of Lands ; 1688, 8vo. 
J. The Ufe of an univerfal Inftrument, or the eafy and 
exaft Refolution of Problems in practical Geometry with¬ 
out any Calculations, 1688, i2tno. 6. A General Me¬ 
thod for Drawing Dials, &c. 1693, nmo, 7. A Courfe 
of Mathematics, comprehending all the moft ufeful and 
necelfary Branches of this fcience, 1693, in five volumes, 
8vo. 8. A Treatife on Fortification, containing the an¬ 
cient and modern Methods of the Conftrudlion and De¬ 
fence of Places, &c. 1694, 4to. 9. Mathematical and 
Philofophical Recreations, containing numerous ufeful 
and pleafing Problems in Arithmetic, Geometry, Optics, 
&c. 1694, 2 vols. 8vo. reprinted with additions by Mon- 
tucla, in 4 vols. 8vo. and tranflated into Englifh by Dr. 
Hutton, 1803. M. Ozanam was alfo the author of va¬ 
rious papers in the Journals des Sgavans, the Memoires 
de Trevoux, and the Memoires of the Academy of Sci¬ 
ences, which are particularized in Hutton's Math. Did. 
O'ZAR, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan : 186 miles fouth- 
eaft of Zareng. 
O'ZAS, a town of Italy : five miles weft of Carmag- 
nola, and ten fouth of Turin. 
OZELL' (John), a writer to whofe induftry, if not to 
his genius, the world lies under confiderable obligations, 
received the firft rudiments of his education from Mr. 
Shaw, an excellent grammarian, and mafter of the free- 
fchool at Afhby de la Zouch, in Leicefterfliire. He after¬ 
wards completed his grammatical ftudies under the Rev. 
Mr. Mountford, of Chrift’s Hofpital, where, having at¬ 
tained a great degree of perfection in the dead languages, 
viz. the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, it was next the in¬ 
tention of his friends to have fent him to the univerfity 
of Cambridge, thereto finilh his ftudies, with a view to 
his being admitted into holy orders. But Mr. Ozeil, 
averfe to the confinement of a college-life, arid perhaps 
difinclined to the clerical profeftion, folicited and ob¬ 
tained an employment in a public office of accounts, with 
a view to which he had taken previous care to qualify 
himfelf by a moft perfect knowledge of arithmetic in alt 
its branches, and a great degree of excellence in writing 
all the neceffary hands. He ftill, however, retained an. 
inclination for polite literature ; and, by entering into 
converfation with foreigners abroad, and a clofe applica¬ 
tion to reading at home, he made himfelf mafter of moft 
of the living languages, more efpecially the French, Ita¬ 
lian, andSpanilh; from all which, as well as from the 
Latin and Greek, he has favoured the world with many 
valuable tranftations. He gave a complete Englifh ver- 
fion of the dramatic pieces of that juftly-celebrated French 
writer, Moliere; befides fome others from Corneilie 
Racine, &c. the titles of which are to be found in the’ 
Biographia Dramatica. 
Mr. Ozeil had the good fortune to efcape all thofe viciili- 
tudes and anxieties in regard to pecuniary circumftances, 
which too frequently attend on men of literary abilities ; 
for, befides that he was, from his earlieft fetting out in 
life, conftantly in the pofteffion of very good places, hav¬ 
ing been for fome years auditor-general of the city and 
bridge accounts ; and, to the time of his deceafe, auditor 
of the accounts of St. Paul’s cathedral, and St. Thomas’s 
Hofpital, all of them polls of confiderable emolument ; 
a gentleman, who was a native of the fame county with 
him, who had known him from a fchool-boy, and it is 
(aid lay under particular obligations to his family, dying 
when Mr. Ozeil was in the very prime of life, left him 
fuch a fortune as would have been a competent fupport 
for him, if he fhould at any time have cholen to retire 
from bufinefs entirely, which however it does not ap¬ 
pear that he ever did. Our author died October 15, 1743, 
and was buried in a vault of St. Mary, Aldermanbury ; 
but what year he was born in, and confequently his age 
at the time of his death, are particulars that we do not 
find on record. 
Mr. Ozeil feems to'have had a more exalted idea of his 
own abilities than the worid was willing to allow them ; 
for, on his being introduced by Mr. Pope into the Dun- 
ciad, he publilhed a very extraordinary advertifemenr, 
figned with his name, in a paper called The Weekly 
Medley, Sept. 1729, in which he exprefies his refentmenr, 
and at the fame time draws a comparifon, in his own fa¬ 
vour, between Mr. Pope and himfelf, with relpeTf both to 
learning and to poetical genius. The advertiiement at 
length may be feen in the notes to the Dunciad. “But 
though (fays his biographer) we cannot readily fubfcribe 
to this felf-afiuined preference, yet, as Mr. Coxeter in¬ 
forms us that his converfation was furprifingly agreeable, 
and his knowledge of men and things confiderable, and as 
it is probable that, with an underftanding fomewhat above 
the common rank, he pofl’efied a great (hare of good-na¬ 
ture, we will readily allow, that a perfon of this charac¬ 
ter might be much more amiable than one of a greater 
brilliancy of parts, if deficient of thefe good qualites.” 
Biog. Dram. 
O'ZEM, [Heb. one that fafteth.] A man’s name. Ju¬ 
dith vi.-x. 
O'ZEMAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, be¬ 
tween Amafieh and Tocat. 
OZE'NE, in ancient geography, a name given in the 
“Periplus of the JErythrean Sea,” as w’ell as in Ptolemy, 
to the city now called Ougein ; which fee. 
OZERNAI'A, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the government 
of Upha, on the Ural : fixty-four miles eaft of Orenburg. 
—Another, forty miles weft of Orenburg. 
OZERNOV'SKOI, a cape of Rufiia, on the eaftern 
coaft of Kamtfchatka: thirty-two miles north-eaft of 
Ukinfkoi. 
OZI'AS, [Heb. ftrength from the Lord.] A man’s name. 
OZIGFNA, 
