 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1911 - 430 sayfa
...There'll be a 'Flemish account of that, the way you're going on."— WBW [The well-known couplet : " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too mneb " The MARINER'S MIRROR. v ™ The il.-sisn of the title page is by Mr. Gregory Robinson, after... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - 468 sayfa
...Malayan islands, she at least 1 It is curious that Canning, the author of the celebrated couplet, ' In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much,' was as weak in dealing with the Dutch pretensions in the Eastern Seas as any other British statesman... | |
 | Ernest Slater - 1912 - 464 sayfa
...Knickerbocker's book on New Amsterdam that I first came across the warning, " In making of bargains the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." The Parisian tells you that it takes three Jews to cheat an Auvergnat. The Englishman tells you that... | |
 | Ernest Slater - 1912 - 488 sayfa
...Knickerbocker's book on New Amsterdam that I first came across the warning, " In making of bargains the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." The Parisian tells you that it takes three Jews to cheat an Auvergnat. The Englishman tells you that... | |
 | Joseph Chamberlain - 1914 - 406 sayfa
...qualities of their Dutch ancestors, and that it is true of them as it was in the time of Canning that ' ... the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' But, nevertheless, they have, as we all recognise, strenuous and virile qualities. And they will add... | |
 | Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1914 - 296 sayfa
...stream. The pretension is simply grotesque, and reminds us of Canning's lines : " In matters of business the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." In 1831 the Dutch Government put forward very much the same pretension. It based its claim on the law... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - 1916 - 338 sayfa
...steadily at the questioner. "I'll tell you," resumed Foster, his face still expressionless. "They say 'the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much.' " "But I don't see," protested Garrett solemnly. "No one is obliged to sell if he does not want to."... | |
 | 1917 - 288 sayfa
...Angleterre aux temps de la rivalité commerciale entre la Grande Bretagne et la Hollande : In matter of commerce The fault of the Dutch Is giving too little And asking too much. Non, il n'est pas possible que la conviction de la nécessité des concessions réciproques ne conduise... | |
 | Guernsey Society of Natural Science and Local Research - 1917 - 496 sayfa
...have had some experience of Dutchmen and their ways, for then as now : — " fn matters of business the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much ! " And we know, from his own letters to Secretary Blathwayt ®i that his chief difficulty lay in the... | |
 | F. W. van Wijk - 1921 - 274 sayfa
...n 63 en 1773, 17. van den opstand af met het Congres zaken deden. Dat dit ging op de bekende wijze: „In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch „is giving too little and asking too much" blijkt uit de brieven van Franklin, die aan den President van het Congres meldt: „In het afgeloopen... | |
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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. 
