 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 Seiten
...churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 Seiten
...churches, ships, &c. from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 358 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning by directing us to fix on the highest parts of those edifices upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 358 Seiten
...upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of the ship, and down her side till it reaches the water? Would not these pointed rods probably draw the... | |
 | 1912 - 624 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning by directing us to fix, on the highest points of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting; and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or around the shrouds of a ship... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...churches, ships, &c from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down one of the shrouds of a... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side till it reaches the water." It was several months after... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1925 - 370 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc. from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest part of those edifices upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle and gilt to prevent rusting .... Would not these pointed rods probably draw the electrical fire silently out of a cloud before... | |
 | 1928 - 640 Seiten
...churches, ships &c. from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Harry C. Kelly - 1941 - 376 Seiten
...from the stroke of lightning by directing us to fix on the highest parts of the edifices upright rock of iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent...rods a wire down the outside of the building into the grounds, or down round one of the shrouds of the ship and down her side till it reaches the water?... | |
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... a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side till it reaches the water? 
