
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
“One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.”
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."”
Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)
Alex Rodriguez Pennington, Bill. (October 1, 2011). Voice of Yankees Draws High Ratings and Many Critics. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/sports/baseball/voice-of-yankees-draws-high-ratings-and-several-critics.html The New York Times.
Specific home run calls
“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”
Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649). Compare: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod." John Skelton, Magnyfycence, line 1954.
The Great Catechism. Second Command (1529)
Letter to Benjamin Rush, 4 April 1790. Alexander Biddle, Old Family Letters, Series A (Philadelphia: 1892), p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=5d8hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55
1790s
A reference to Labour's election campaign slogan "New Labour, New Britain". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1551880/General-Sir-Edward-Jones.html Daily Telgraph 1997
1990s
“4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)