 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 sider
...astonishment he deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :— In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is...much; With equal advantage the French are content : So we "11 clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck... | |
 | 1888 - 350 sider
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 608 sider
...astonishment he deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:— In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is...advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per... | |
 | 1921 - 864 sider
...happily makes for the peace of nations by disposing of the peculiar sting of the well-known couplet: In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. The rubber restriction scheme became operative on November 1. The commercial column of the Times observed... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 sider
...astonishment he deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is...advantage the French are content : So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 sider
...astonishment he decyphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is...advantage the French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent Twenty per cent., Twenty per cent., Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 sider
...Foreign Affairs: — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch IK giving too little and asking tno much ; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per... | |
 | Robert L. Wade - 1846 - 448 sider
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 668 sider
...statesmen, and should be headed " Wit out of Place ":— " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch IB 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., Twenty per cent., Nous frapperons... | |
 | 1884 - 672 sider
...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...; With equal advantage the French are content, So we '11 clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent., Twenty per cent,, Nous frapperons... | |
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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. 
