 | 1826 - 488 страници
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down bouses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That be needed no more soldiers, and... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1827 - 478 страници
...people will not obey me. I have been pulling down 1 Diary, Vol. ip 425. a That houses should be pulled down. houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than...having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, &c.'" Something that came out on Rosewell's trial, which we shall mention by and by, seems to confirm... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 456 страници
...neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, the people will not obey me. I have been pulling down...do it:' that he 'needed no more soldiers,' and that • he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night.' So he left me, and I him, and walked... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 452 страници
...cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I atn spent, the people will not obey me. J have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes...it :' that he ' needed no more soldiers,' and that ' he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night.' So he left me, and I him, and walked home... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1839 - 512 страници
...handkercher about his neck To the king's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord I what can I do? 1 am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling...it.' That he needed no more soldiers, and that, for * St. Laurence Poullney, of which Thomas Elborough was curate. T Sir Thomas Bludwurth. himself, he... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 страници
...handkerchief about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent; people will not obey me. I have been...left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses too so very thick thereabouts,... | |
 | 1849 - 606 страници
...that he should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1846 - 484 страници
...head. To the king's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent. The people will not obey me. I have been pulling down...do it ; that he needed no more soldiers ; and that he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night.' So he left me, and I him, and walked home,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 страници
...a fainting woman, 1 St. Lawrence Poultney, of which Thomas Elborough was curate. " Lord! what can I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | 1849 - 588 страници
...that he should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
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Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it. 
