 | James Hingston - 1879 - 490 sayfa
...was, I now found, the enterprise of a foreign company. I had wrongly given the Dutch credit for it. " The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much," said Canning, who compressed thus his words and meanings in the days of the fourth George. They still... | |
 | Philip William Flower - 1880 - 272 sayfa
...whatever his tin be, the inscription, block tin, makes it pass for English." " In buying and selling the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." SUBMARINE TIN MINES. It is a most remarkable fact that, in the eager search for tin, some of the Cornish... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 sayfa
...deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — " In mattere of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and aekiug too mach ; With equal advantage the French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty... | |
 | Percy Melville Thornton - 1881 - 372 sayfa
...Charles Bagot was minister at the Hague he was astonished to receive the following verse in cypher :— " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving...; With equal advantage the French are content, So we 11 clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent." Jenning's Awalutal History <;/ British Parliament,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Farrer Baron Farrer, Cobden Club (London, England) - 1882 - 228 sayfa
...giving less." Canning's well-known despatch involves a political, if not an economical truth : — " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving...; With equal advantage the French are content, So will clap on Dutch bottoms 20 per cent." It needs no thought to feel angry at an over-reaching bargainer... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1882 - 250 sayfa
...excess. Perhaps not more than to most 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 much.' They have excelled in the fine arts and various branches of learning, and been distinguished for their... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1883 - 878 sayfa
...the majesty of the people : I presume your highnesses are in court mourning.' A Poetical Despatch. IN matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving...and 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;... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 660 sayfa
...I will show how the Dutch (of whom it cannot be said, to vary an old rhyme, In matters of learning the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much. for thr in4ruction is ] radically free), who are already learning a trade or working at one, u«e the... | |
 | Geographical reader - 1883 - 336 sayfa
...So shrewd are they in their dealings, and so fond of driving a hard bargain, that it has been said " the fault of the Dutch is, giving too little and asking too much." Nevertheless, they are frugal, industrious, and business-like in their habits, and faithful to their... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 694 sayfa
...I will show how the Dutch (of whom it cannot be said, to vary an old rhyme, In matters of Itarning the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much. for the in«truction is \ radically free), who are already learning a trade or working at one, use... | |
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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. 
