 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1900 - 380 páginas
...deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — " 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'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent,... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1872 - 390 páginas
...deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — " 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. Twenty per cent.,... | |
 | 1880 - 434 páginas
...gevon den worden op wie het welbekende Engeische rijmpje van toepassing is : „In matters of commeree the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." ') Nog een waarschuwend veorbeeld. — Naar aauleiding van het door ons medegedeelde, aangaande een... | |
 | 1874 - 532 páginas
...he deciphered the following despatch from be Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little 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.,... | |
 | 1874 - 804 páginas
...deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — " 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'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per. cent. Twenty per cent,... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1874 - 460 páginas
...the story of Canning's sending to Bagot a despatch in cipher, containing 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,... | |
 | 1874 - 870 páginas
...deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — 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'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent.,... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1874 - 454 páginas
...the story of Canning's sending to Bagot a despatch in cipher, containing 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.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1924 - 1048 páginas
...connection I ¡un reminded of a little epigram, 1 think it wa by Cummings, in which lie said that iu matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much, and I think that that probably applies to the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. NELSON!. He certainly could... | |
 | Cook Thomas and son, ltd - 1874 - 236 páginas
...important paper (and it was important) contained something like the following doggerel — "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." So much... | |
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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'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. 
