Ezra Stiles Gannett, an honorable representative of the sanhedrin, addressed himself frankly to the issue in 1845, insisting that Parker should not be persecuted or calumniated and that in this republic no power to restrain him by force could exist.

The Ezra Stiles copy of the Brown University Charter of 1764

At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by the theologist Ezra Stiles, were working toward a similar end.

He enrolled at Yale just shy of his 16th birthday, studying during his senior year with the learned Ezra Stiles, Yale's president.

Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.

The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.

In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings ; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University.

* Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink ( affectionately known as " The Whale ") at Yale University

Other key texts of this period included Ezra Stiles ' The United States elevated to Glory and Honor ( 1783 ) and the Chronicles of Eri ( 1822 ).

He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

Ezra Stiles ( November 29, 1727 – May 12, 1795 ) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author.

Yale College diploma, Ezra Stiles, Class of 1746

Isaac Stiles in North Haven, Connecticut, Ezra Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746.

The Ezra Stiles House in Newport is on the National Historic Register.

Stiles ' son Ezra Stiles, Esq., was educated first at Yale College, then at Harvard College, where he studied law, graduating in 1778.

Ezra Stiles Jr. subsequently settled in Vermont, and served to establish the boundaries between Vermont and New Hampshire.

Ezra Stiles was also a dedicated supporter of the American Revolutionary cause, and an avid amateur scientist who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin about scientific discoveries.

Ezra Stiles House in Newport, Rhode Island

Volume carries notation: " Given to the Library of Yale College by Ezra Stiles 1785.

Named in his honor is Ezra Stiles College, one of Yale's residential colleges.

Adjacent to Ezra Stiles College is its near architectural twin, Morse College, named for Samuel F. B.

* Ezra Stiles College

The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles ( Vol.

These have sometimes been identified as another, separate work, the Ezra Memorial ( EM ), but other scholars believe the EM to be fictional and heavily altered by later editors.

Two years later, Ezra Newman found the axisymmetric solution for a black hole that is both rotating and electrically charged.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

The canonical Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the activity of Ezra, whereas many of the other books ascribed to Ezra ( First Esdras, 3-6 Ezra ) are later literary works dependent on the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

Gosta W. Ahlstrom argues the inconsistencies of the biblical tradition are insufficient to say that Ezra, with his central position as the ' father of Judaism ' in the Jewish tradition, has been a later literary invention.

* April 14 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer ( d. 2006 )

The impressionistic and concise nature of his verse influenced particularly Ezra Pound and the Imagists, and later the poets of the Beat Generation.

Other descendants were Ezra T. Benson and his grandson, Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, later 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Ezra T. Clark was an early settler of Farmington who later founded the Davis County Bank and built several houses in the area, some of which are located in the Clark Lane Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Years later with the claims finally secured from the government both by Ezra and Oliver ’ s wife Amanda, the claims were then sold.

Baruch Spinoza, basing his opinion on verses cited by Ibn Ezra in the beginning of Deuteronomy, concludes that Moses did not author the Pentateuch and that the Pentateuch was written much later.

Better Than Ezra circulated a demo cassette tape later in 1988, the Chimes Street Demo.

It was the first to publish works by a number of struggling authors who later became famous, including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, René Crevel, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.

Gennett set up recording studios in New York City and later, in 1921, set up a second studio on the grounds of the piano factory in Richmond, Indiana under the supervision of Ezra C. A.

Some of the later prominent people who are featured in his memoirs include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.

Carter was also present at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival to hear the world premiere of his song-cycle On Conversing with Paradise, based on Ezra Pound's Canto 95 ( from the section Rock-Drill ) and one of Pound's ' Notes ' intended for later Cantos, and usually published at the end of the Cantos .< ref >

One anomalous figure of the early period of modernism also deserves mention: Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote in a radically experimental prosody about radically conservative ideals ( not unlike a later Ezra Pound ), and he believed that sound could drive poetry.

Mortalism is present in certain Second Temple Period pseudepigraphal works, later rabbinical works, and among medieval era rabbis such as Abraham Ibn Ezra ( 1092 – 1167 ), Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), and Joseph Albo ( 1380 – 1444 ).

Ezra Cornell was a birthright Quaker, but was later disowned by the Society of Friends for marrying outside of the faith to a " world's woman ," a Methodist by the name of Mary Ann Wood.