 | 1888 - 350 str.
...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 str.
...worn out, and while Sir Charles Bagot, our ambassador at the Hague, was one day attending at court, a despatch in cipher was hastily put into his hand....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... | |
 | 1892 - 890 str.
...before the key could be obtained, to his intense amazement, he deciphered the following words : — In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving...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. ; Sous frapperons... | |
 | 1921 - 864 str.
...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 str.
...; but unfortunately Sir Charles, not expecting such a communication, had not the key of the cypher with him. An interval of intense anxiety followed,...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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 str.
...intense anxiety followed, until he obtained the key ; when to his infinite astonishment he decyphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State...; 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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 388 str.
...until he obtained the key ; when, to his infinite astonishment, he deciphered the following dispatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :...; 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... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 str.
...the Hague. Sir Charles hastened to get the key to the cipher, and at length read as follows : — " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch " Is...asking too much ; " With equal advantage the French are coutcnt, " So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent : " Twenty per cent, " Twenty per cent,... | |
 | Samuel Brothers - 1859 - 188 str.
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1860 - 1182 str.
...Minister at the Hague wrote in cypher his opinion of the matter in the following well-known lines : — "In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is...; With equal advantage the French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Nous frapperons Falck with a 20 per cent." Now, if the... | |
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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. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty... 
