 | 1828 - 514 pągines
...from Spain. The carts of Coruuna make so loud and disagreeable a creaking with their wheels, from the want of oil, that the Governor once issued an order to have them greased ; but it was speedily revoked, on the petition of the carters, who stated that the oxen liked the sound, and would... | |
 | 1828 - 442 pągines
...from Spain. The carts of Corunna make so loud and disagreeable a creaking with their wheels, from the want of oil, that the Governor once issued an order to have them greased ; but it was speedily revoked, on the petition of the carters, who stated that the oxen liked the sound, and would... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pągines
...passage, with which we shall conclude our chapter on Legal jargon and professional botheration : — " The carts of Corunna make so loud and disagreeable...the sound, and would not draw without its music." THE NEW CHARTER OF BRITISH LIBERTY. WRITTEN ON HEARING THAT THE REFORM DILI. HAD PASSF.D. Thank reason... | |
 | James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pągines
...this musical feeling in oxen Dr. Southey mentions a very singular instance. " The carts," he says, " of Corunna make so loud and disagreeable a creaking...liked the sound, and would not draw without its music J." Even fish, upon better authority than the old story of Amphion and the dolphin, are said to have... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pągines
...Southey, in his " Letters from Spain," mentions a very singular instance : — " The carts," he says, " of Corunna make so loud and disagreeable a creaking...the oxen liked the sound, and would not draw without this music." Professor Bell, in his " History of Quadrupeds" (1837), p. 405, assures us, that he has... | |
 | 1844 - 400 pągines
...Southey, in his " Letters from Spain," mentions a very singular instance:— " The carts," he says, " of Corunna make so loud and disagreeable a creaking...for want of oil, that the governor once issued an crder to have them greased ; but it was revoked, on the petition of the carters, who stated that the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 pągines
...The carts in Corunna, in Spain, make so loud and disagreeable a creaking with their wheels, for the want of oil, that the governor once issued an order to have them greased ; but the carters petitioned that this might not be done, as the oxen liked the sound, and would not draw... | |
 | 1890 - 682 pągines
...carts in Corunna, in Spain, make so loud and disagreeable a creaking sound with their wheels, for the want of oil, that the governor once issued an order to have them greased ; but the carters petitioned that this might not be done, as the oxen liked the sound, and would not draw... | |
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of Corunna make so loud and disagreeable a creaking with their wheels, for want of oil, that the governor once issued an order to have them greased ; but it was revoked, on the petition of the carters, who stated that the oxen liked the sound, and would... 