 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1922 - 472 sayfa
...astonished the British Minister at The Hague by sending him a message which when deciphered read : " 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 clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent., Twenty per... | |
 | Albert Montefiore Hyamson - 1922 - 392 sayfa
...until a purchaser is forthcoming. Dutch Bargain, A : (i) a one-sided bargain. From the couplet : — ' In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much . ' Dutch] (2) a bargain concluded by the parties drinking together. Dutch Comfort : comfort derived... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sayfa
...Oct. 4, 1902. P. 270. Claimed for MARVELL in London Morning Post, May 25, 1904. In making of treaties Sc.4. L. 24. 21 Given as a verbatim copy of the dispatch. 13 Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1924 - 488 sayfa
...astonished the British Minister at The Hague by sending him a message which when deciphered read: " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal protection the French arc content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent., Twenty per... | |
 | Gerard Collier - 1924 - 270 sayfa
...value, but to receive it ; they were ready to learn, their missionary work was scandalously small : In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. The Catholic leaders went out, first and foremost, to thrust their inestimable spiritual treasure down... | |
 | Isaac Frederick Marcosson - 1924 - 410 sayfa
...of the Dutch business mind is proverbial. It led Canning to indite his famous epigram which reads: In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. By the time you reach the end of this chapter you will probably believe that the couplet was inspired... | |
 | Aldous Huxley - 1926 - 346 sayfa
...are the merest upstarts and parvenus. BAT API A ' IN matters of commerce,' it was once affirmed, ' In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' But either things have changed since those lines were written, or else the Dutch do not regard the... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1927 - 610 sayfa
...story, which, however, was heard by Greville. The despatch was in cipher and contained 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.—... | |
 | 1927 - 494 sayfa
...the money is not lacking. Holland is noted as a charitable country. You know the English saying, " The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." Don't you believe it. Maybe we are in the habit of asking too much for our money, but I can assure... | |
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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. 
