 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...astonishment he 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... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1888 - 350 pages
...on the cricket-field we shall hardly want to fight elsewhere, Mynheer— even in Africa, I hope. " In matters of Commerce, the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much." You know the old metrical sneer. Suppose we alter it to : — " In matters of bowling the fault of... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...astonishment he 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 pages
...astonishment he 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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 pages
...astonishment he decyphered 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... | |
 | Robert L. Wade - United States - 1846 - 448 pages
...astonishment, he deciphered the following despatch from the secretary of state for foreign affairs : " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too liule and asking too much; With equal advan'nse the French are content, So we 'If clap on Uutch buttons... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 672 pages
...frivolities of the declining race of British statesmen, and should be headed " Wit out of Place ":— '• 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... | |
 | Samuel Brothers - Wool industry - 1859 - 188 pages
...monopoly, was that so admirably and pithily expressed by Canning in his celebrated Despatch : — " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much." This mania of monopoly which had cha- Monopoly in England graracterized the operations of all the mercantile... | |
 | Tobias Michael Carel Asser - Constitutional law - 1860 - 412 pages
...Minister CANNING, naar aanleiding van onderhandelingen met Nederland gezegd heeft: "In matters of commeree the fault of the Dutch "Is giving too little and asking too much." De Minister liet daarop volgen: "With equal advantage the Freneh are content, "So we'll clap on Dutch... | |
 | 1861 - 898 pages
...closed markets, in which they commanded their own prices, on the principle once imputed to them by Canning — In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. Free trade and navigation laws, which have demolished their monopolies, had not then appeared to them... | |
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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. 
