 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 502 páginas
...parties drinking together. Occasionally, no doubt, the term implied a hard bargain also : In matters of Commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Otway, in his play, Friendship in Fashion, says : " I hate a Dutch Bargain that's made in heat of wine."... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 548 páginas
...parties drinking together. Occasionally, no doubt, the term implied a hard bargain also : In matters of Commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Otway, in his play, friendship in Fashion, says : " I hate a Dutch Bargain that's made in heat of wine."... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1908 - 426 páginas
...there is sometimes a glint of humour. For example, Canning's celebrated lines, "In matters of business the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." occur in an official despatch to the British Ambassador at the Hague on a treaty with Holland. As for... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1908 - 494 páginas
...there is sometimes a glint of humour. For example, Canning's celebrated lines, "In matters of business the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." occur in an official despatch to the British Ambassador at the Hague on a treaty with Holland. As for... | |
 | Channing Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost - 1909 - 452 páginas
...traders, and as might only too truly be said of many English and American women, that " in matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much." They ask very little but the amorous attentions of their lords and masters, as long as their looks... | |
 | Joseph William Wilson Welsford - 1909 - 348 páginas
...Dutch attitude in his well-known despatch to the British ambassador at the Hague : — 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.3 Whilst Dutch... | |
 | Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson - 1910 - 330 páginas
...his experience of Dutch merchants was quite the reverse of the gentleman's who wrote : " In matters of commerce, The fault of the Dutch Is giving too little And asking too much." I much regret my inability to get a portrait of Mr. Barclay, who was a handsome and an important man.... | |
 | Hamilton Fyfe - 1911 - 350 páginas
...the creation of a South African nationality really begin. CHAPTER IX NO ENGLISH NEED APPLY In matters of Commerce The fault of the Dutch Is giving too little And asking too much. Popular Rhyme THE Dutch as a race have always been remarkable for keeping their eyes on the main chance.... | |
 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1911 - 430 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
