 | 1874 - 532 sayfa
...istonishment, he deciphered the following despatch from be Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is...asking too much ; With equal advantage the French arc content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent., Twenty per cent., Twenty per cent,... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1874 - 454 sayfa
...Haddington told the story of Canning's sending to Bagot a despatch in cipher, containing these lines : — In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal protection the French are content : So we'll lay on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. Chorus of Officers.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1924 - 1048 sayfa
...connection I ¡un reminded of a little epigram, 1 think it wa by Cummings, in which lie said that iu matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much, and I think that that probably applies to the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. NELSON!. He certainly could... | |
 | Cook Thomas and son, ltd - 1874 - 236 sayfa
...important paper (and it was important) contained something like the following doggerel — "Dear Bagot, in commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little, and asking too much ; So since on this policy Mynheer seems bent, We'll clap on his vessels just 20 per cent." So much... | |
 | 1874 - 802 sayfa
...astonishment, he deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little ami aslcing too much; With equal advantage the French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a... | |
 | Charles Cavendish F. Greville - 1875 - 456 sayfa
...Haddington told the stor}of Canning's sending to Bagot a despatch in cipher, containing these lines : — In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal protection the French are content : So we'll lay on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. Chorus of Officers.... | |
 | 1877 - 796 sayfa
...official who, setting all the red-tapeism of the diplomatic service at defiance, wrote as his despatch — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. In these latitudes all the devices which the knowing ones have picked up in going to and fro on the... | |
 | William Senior - 1877 - 380 sayfa
...who, setting all the red-tapeism of the diplomatic service at defiance, wrote as his despatch — " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little, and asking too much." In these latitudes all the devices which the knowing ones have picked up in going to and fro on the... | |
 | Andrew F. Crosse - 1878 - 396 sayfa
...lines about the sharp practice of some nearer neighbours would apply very well to the Servians : — " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little, and asking too much." No sooner had we landed on the Hungarian side of the river than up came a customhouse official, who... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 692 sayfa
...excess. Perhaps not more thar to other mercantile nations are the lines of Canning applicable : — "In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too nnicli." History, — Julius Cwsar, in prosecuting his conquests in Northern Gaul, advanced as far... | |
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In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content : So we "11 clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. 
