 | 1895 - 418 sayfa
...Voorzitter! Het is mij verteld, dat elke schooljongen in Engeland het woord van Walpole van buiten kent, dat //The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." En nu ben ik werkelijk bang, dat ik van avond in mijn toespraak u een nieuw bewijs voor de waarheid... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1908 - 904 sayfa
...step most illustrative of that national foible immortalized in the old rhyme : In matters of trade, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. They raised the price of their opium, with the natural consequence that immediately the smugglers were... | |
 | Nederlands Zendelinggenootschap - 1895 - 422 sayfa
...Voorzitter! Het is mij verteld, dat elke schooljongen in Engeland het woord van Walpole van buiten kent, dat »The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too mach." En nu ben ik werkelijk bang, dat ik van avond in mijn toespraak u een nieuw bewijs voor de waarheid... | |
 | 1896 - 736 sayfa
...balance of profit and loss in the Dutch East Indies — perhaps on account of the poet's stricture : "In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little, and asking too much." France, our traditional rival, has of recent years entered upon a course of ambitious colonial expansion,... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 712 sayfa
...and raw silk, by purchasing them at Aleppo or Alexandria, as we should if we sent ships to Malabar. ' In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' So wrote Canning ; and two centuries before Canning the Dutch in 1599 by raising the price of pepper... | |
 | Arthur Silva White - 1899 - 538 sayfa
...balance of profit and loss in the Dutch East Indies — perhaps on account of the poet's stricture : ' In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' France, our traditional rival, has of recent years entered upon a course of ambitious colonial expansion... | |
 | Samuel Kalff - 1899 - 216 sayfa
...handeldrijvende natie de beginselen der negotie ook op hunne krijgszaken toepassen. Ge kent immers het rijmpje : In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Intusschen ging de zon luisterrijk onder. Hare stralen speelden op de rotsklompen in zee, welke Eiebeeks... | |
 | Samuel Kalff - 1899 - 222 sayfa
...handeldrijvende natie de beginselen der negotie ook op hunne krijgszaken toepassen. Ge kent immers het rijmpje : In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too mucb. Intusschen ging de zon luisterrijk onder. Hare stralen speelden op de rotsklompen in zee, welke... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1899 - 534 sayfa
...work to de-cypher it. Could they believe their senses, it was a quatrain in rhyme : — Dear Bagot, in commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; So, since on this policy Mynheer's so bent, We'll clap on his vessel full 20 per cent. The O's and... | |
 | Mrs. Alexander - 1900 - 312 sayfa
...about the difficulties which have arisen respecting the business he was engaged in. ' ' "Yes, you know 'the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much.' Well, they have asked so much that Merivale has washed his hands of the whole concern, and is off on... | |
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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. 
