 | 1905 - 1024 sayfa
...proverbe anglais définit asse/. plaisamment ce trait spécial du caractère hollandais : In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. (2) Ce serait ici le lieu de traiter la question des métis mais je ne veux pas faire double emploi... | |
 | Jan Veth - 1905 - 268 sayfa
...dan wat onzen gemeenen handel aangaat, van ons de >edenkelijke getuigenis op de lippen zou nemen, dat the fault of the Dutch, is giving too little and asking too much. De zaak is inderdaad, dat wij in deze dingen nog maar an een bescheiden begin toe zijn, — en als... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 548 sayfa
...cemented by the parties drinking together. Occasionally, no doubt, the term implied a hard bargain also : In matters of Commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Otway, in his play, friendship in Fashion, says : " I hate a Dutch Bargain that's made in heat of wine."... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 502 sayfa
...cemented by the parties drinking together. Occasionally, no doubt, the term implied a hard bargain also : In matters of Commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Otway, in his play, Friendship in Fashion, says : " I hate a Dutch Bargain that's made in heat of wine."... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1908 - 426 sayfa
...there is sometimes a glint of humour. For example, Canning's celebrated lines, "In matters of business the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." occur in an official despatch to the British Ambassador at the Hague on a treaty with Holland. As for... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1908 - 494 sayfa
...there is sometimes a glint of humour. For example, Canning's celebrated lines, "In matters of business the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." occur in an official despatch to the British Ambassador at the Hague on a treaty with Holland. As for... | |
 | Channing Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost - 1909 - 448 sayfa
...of the Dutch traders, and as might only too truly be said of many English and American women, that " in matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." They ask very little but the amorous attentions of their lords and masters, as long as their looks... | |
 | Joseph William Wilson Welsford - 1909 - 348 sayfa
...Dutch attitude in his well-known despatch to the British ambassador at the Hague : — 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.3 Whilst Dutch... | |
 | Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson - 1910 - 330 sayfa
...Evidently his experience of Dutch merchants was quite the reverse of the gentleman's who wrote : " In matters of commerce, The fault of the Dutch Is giving too little And asking too much." I much regret my inability to get a portrait of Mr. Barclay, who was a handsome and an important man.... | |
 | Hamilton Fyfe - 1911 - 350 sayfa
...removed can the creation of a South African nationality really begin. CHAPTER IX NO ENGLISH NEED APPLY In matters of Commerce The fault of the Dutch Is giving too little And asking too much. Popular Rhyme THE Dutch as a race have always been remarkable for keeping their eyes on the main chance.... | |
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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. 
