 The prodigious increase of the Netherlands, in their domestic and foreign trade, riches, and multitude of shipping, is the envy of the present, and may be the wonder of future generations...  World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 - Page 44by Charles P. Kindleberger - 1996 - 288 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Commerce - 1841 - 604 pages
...rich." 396 British Navigation Act. with prophetic truth, " The prodigious increase of the Netherlands, in their domestic and foreign trade, riches, and multitude...the envy of the present, and may be the wonder of future generations."* Sir Josiah gives the following explanation of the causes of the commercial skill... | |
 | Life insurance - 1861 - 932 pages
...initials " JC" only. It opens thus : — " The prodigious increase of the Netherbinders in their domestick and foreign trade, riches, and multitude of shipping,...the envy of the present, and may be the wonder of 1 Assurance Mag*, vols, vi., yii., and viii. VOL. IX. K all future, generations. And yet the means... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 618 pages
...Netherlanders as worthy of imitation by the English. It begins: " The prodigious increase of the Netherlands in their domestic and foreign trade, riches, and multitude...the envy of the present. and may be the wonder of future gencrations." and its foundation not only testifies to the wealth of the republic, but marks... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 658 pages
...Netherlanders as worthy of imitation by the English. It begins: " The prodigious increase of the Netherlands in their domestic and foreign trade, riches, and multitude...the envy of the present, and may be the wonder of future generations." and its foundation not only testifies to the wealth of the republie, but marks... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Commerce - 1900 - 280 pages
...serve as an example. "The prodigious increase," he writes, "of the Netherlanders in their domestick and foreign trade, riches, and multitude of shipping,...the envy of the present, and may be the wonder of future generations." Imitation of the Dutch, the " sincerest form of flattery," was strongly recommended... | |
 | Parakunnel Joseph Thomas - East Indies - 1926 - 204 pages
...studied uhe conditions of Dutch trade. He begins his Discourse of Trade (1690) with the assertion that " the Prodigious increase of the Netherlanders in their Domestic and Foreign Trade, riches, multitudes of shipping is the envy of the present and may be the wonder of future generations." He... | |
 | J. Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, Björn Wittrock - History - 1998 - 314 pages
...defined the key to the Dutch success: "The prodigous increase of the Netherlanders in their domestick and foreign Trade, Riches and multitude of Shipping, is the envy of the present, and may be the wonders of all future generations."19 Furthermore, according to Nicholas Barbon: "The Greatness and... | |
| |
