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English, 25.08.2019 05:50, ehgdhjahag

In this excerpt from herman melville’s short story "the lightning-rod man," which sentences or phrases best support an objective summary of the excerpt?
[hark! there go all the granite taconics and hoosics dashed together like pebbles. by the sound, that must have struck something.] [an elevation of five feet above the house, will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod.] only twenty dollars, sir—a dollar a foot. hark! —dreadful! —will you order? will you buy? shall i put down your name? [think of being a heap of charred offal like a haltered horse burnt in his stall; and all in one flash! "]
["you pretended envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to and from jupiter tonans,"] [laughed i; "you mere man who come here to put you and your pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert the supernal bolt? your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you? ] [who has empowered you, you tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations? the hairs of our heads are numbered, and the days of our lives. in thunder as in sunshine, i stand at ease in the hands of my god.] false negotiator, away! [see, the scroll of the storm is rolled back; the house is unharmed; and in the blue heavens i read in the rainbow, that the deity will not, of purpose, make war on man's earth."]
a) hark! there go all the granite taconics and hoosics dashed together like pebbles. by the sound, that must have struck something.
b) an elevation of five feet above the house, will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod.
c) think of being a heap of charred offal like a haltered horse burnt in his stall; and all in one flash! "
d) "you pretended envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to and from jupiter tonans,"
e) laughed i; "you mere man who come here to put you and your pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert the supernal bolt? your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you?
f)who has empowered you, you tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations? the hairs of our heads are numbered, and the days of our lives. in thunder as in sunshine, i stand at ease in the hands of my god.
g) see, the scroll of the storm is rolled back; the house is unharmed; and in the blue heavens i read in the rainbow, that the deity will not, of purpose, make war on man's earth."
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