 | Voltaire - 1762 - 300 pages
...fecretary could only bring out with a faultering voice ; "The the bomb, fir." " Well, replies the king, and what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating ? Go on." There was, at that time, an ambaflador of France fhut up with Charles in Stralfund. -This •was one Colbert, count de Croiffy,... | |
 | History - 1789 - 622 pages
...with a tranquil air, " that you do not continue writing?" The fecretary could only fay, " Ah, fire ! the bomb !" " Well," replied the king, " what has the bomb to do With the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on !" This circurrifihrce is highly charaikritlic of that un. daunted, and perhaps imprudent,... | |
 | Pigault-Lebrun - 1805 - 306 pages
...their profession. Sublime eloquence! woe to the marble heart that is deaf to it! But the bomh, sire! What has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? — The shot has tarried off the porridge-pot, but luckily the beef wasn't in it. — It was... | |
 | François Marie Arouet de Voltaire - 1807 - 416 pages
...faid the King with a placid air, " why do you not write ?" The Secretary could only fay, " Ah, Sire, the bomb !" " Well," replied the King, " what has the bomb to do with " the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on." THERE was, at this time, an Ambaflador of France fhut up with the King of Sweden at... | |
 | Biography - 1807 - 454 pages
...is the matter ?" said the King, with much composure. The secretary could only utter — " Oh, Sire ! the bomb !" " Well," replied the king, " What has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating ? — Proceed." The situation to which Charles was now reduced, forced him to abandon all his projects... | |
 | Voltaire - Sweden - 1807 - 512 pages
...dont you write ? The man could only bring out these words, The bomb, sir. Well, replied the king, and what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on. An ambassador from France was then shut up, in Stralsund, with the king of Sweden.... | |
 | Voltaire - Sweden - 1833 - 284 pages
...said the king, with a placid air, " why do you not write ?" The secretary could only say, " Ah, sire, the bomb !" " Well," replied the king, " what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on." There was, at this time, an ambassador of France shut up with the king of Sweden in... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...said the king, with a placid air, "why do you not -write?" The secretary could only say, "Ah, sire, the bomb!" "Well," replied the king, "what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. The clock strikes one: we lake no note of time,... | |
 | Heinrich Godefroy Ollendorff - 1841 - 570 pages
..."Ah, Sire (gnabiger -£>err)," answered the secretary, "the bomb ! " — " Well," said the king, " and what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating ? Go on." (Cfeffel.) The king of Prussia, seeing one of his soldiers with a scarred face (mit einer 9îarbe im... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 296 pages
...entered at the closet door, which happened to be open. write?" The secretary could only say, "Ah, sire, the bomb!" "Well," replied the king, "what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. • The clock strikes one: we take no note of... | |
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"'Well," replied the king, "what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you? Go on. 
