 | 1826 - 488 sider
...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 that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up aU... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1827 - 478 sider
...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 sider
...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 houses ; but the fire overtakes...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... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1839 - 512 sider
...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 down houses, but the fire overtakes...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 sider
...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...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 sider
...endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " 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." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 sider
...of which Thomas Elborough was curate. " Lord! what can I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes...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 sider
...endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, "Lord ! what can I do? 1 am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, 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,... | |
 | 1849 - 588 sider
...endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I 0 ? or c 3o Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1852 - 334 sider
...message,2 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...having been up all night. So he left me, and I him," &c.3 1 Diary, vol. ip 425. 2 That houses should be pulled down. 3 Vol. ip 446. Pepys seems afterwards... | |
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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. 
