 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 Seiten
...creature, for when he heard 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...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." The King and the Duke of York showed themselves better men at this time. They were very active, and... | |
 | 1892 - 944 Seiten
...neck." When Pepys gave him 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...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." In the course of the day the fire had spread back to Gracechurch Street and up the river to the Vintry,... | |
 | Reginald Robinson Sharpe - 1894 - 674 Seiten
...flames. " Lord, what can I do ? " he lack-a-daisically exclaimed in answer to a message from the king ; " I " am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...the fire overtakes us " faster than we can do it.'' 2 The inhabitants were 1 Charles II is said to have l)een the last English sovereign to occupy rooms... | |
 | Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1072 Seiten
...hut to pull down hefore the fire every way), he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! What can I do? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " a See the question discussed as to the limits wilhin which this may be done. Pufendorf, Le Droit... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1896 - 240 Seiten
...having nothing that it could devour, might die out. And what did he answer. ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." And so all that he did was to go home THE GRKAT FIRE. and refresh himself." I could not wonder at the... | |
 | Austin Clare - 1896 - 290 Seiten
...repeated his words. The Mayor struck his hands together, like a man driven beyond his utmost capacity. " 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."* " But the prisoners, your worship, the... | |
 | Frederic Morell Holmes - 1899 - 200 Seiten
...message [to pull down houses before the fire] he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " This is a graphic little picture of the bewilderment of the people ; and Pepys goes on to say that,... | |
 | 1899 - 574 Seiten
...handkercher about his neck, cried out like a fainting woman to the king's message — Lord what can I do, I am spent, people will not obey me, I have been pulling...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it ! ' It was evident if the fire did not reach Chancery Lane 'before Thursday' it would not be thanks... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 Seiten
...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...houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can doit;' that he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 Seiten
...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 pulling...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,... | |
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Street, like a man spent, with a 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 houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than... 
