 | Samuel Hood Hood (Viscount), Navy Records Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 234 páginas
...the matter of loot when in Bengal. Rodney and Vaughan could hardly have said as much. 2 ' In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' a squeeze, as many of their actions will [not] well bear the daylight. Had they abided by the first... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1908 - 904 páginas
...step most illustrative of that national foible immortalized in the old rhyme : In matters of trade, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. They raised the price of their opium, with the natural consequence that immediately the smugglers were... | |
 | 1895 - 418 páginas
...Voorzitter! Het is mij verteld, dat elke schooljongen in Engeland het woord van Walpole van buiten kent, dat //The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." En nu ben ik werkelijk bang, dat ik van avond in mijn toespraak u een nieuw bewijs voor de waarheid... | |
 | Nederlands Zendelinggenootschap - 1895 - 422 páginas
...Voorzitter! Het is mij verteld, dat elke schooljongen in Engeland het woord van Walpole van buiten kent, dat »The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too mach." En nu ben ik werkelijk bang, dat ik van avond in mijn toespraak u een nieuw bewijs voor de waarheid... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 714 páginas
...by purchasing them at Aleppo or Alexandria, as we should if we sent ships to Malabar. ' In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' So wrote Canning ; and two centuries before Canning the Dutch in 1599 by raising the price of pepper... | |
 | 1896 - 736 páginas
...profit and loss in the Dutch East Indies — perhaps on account of the poet's stricture : "In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little, and asking too much." France, our traditional rival, has of recent years entered upon a course of ambitious colonial expansion,... | |
 | Samuel Kalff - 1899 - 216 páginas
...beginselen der negotie ook op hunne krijgszaken toepassen. Ge kent immers het rijmpje : In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Intusschen ging de zon luisterrijk onder. Hare stralen speelden op de rotsklompen in zee, welke Eiebeeks... | |
 | Arthur Silva White - 1899 - 554 páginas
...profit and loss in the Dutch East Indies — perhaps on account of the poef s stricture : ' In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much.' France, our traditional rival, has of recent years entered upon a course of ambitious colonial expansion... | |
 | Florence Ortlepp Phillips - 1900 - 326 páginas
...revenue, without allowing them any voice in its expenditure. The oft-quoted rhyme of Canning, " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much," applies to-day. There is one aspect of the question which does not often strike people comfortably... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1899 - 534 páginas
...work to de-cypher it. Could they believe their senses, it was a quatrain in rhyme : — Dear Bagot, in commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; So, since on this policy Mynheer's so bent, We'll clap on his vessel full 20 per cent. The O's and... | |
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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. 
