 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent. GEORGE CANNING. The minister kept his word. While this singular despatch was on its way to the Hague,... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...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...twenty per cent., Twenty per cent., Twenty per cent. ; Sous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent. GEOROE CANNING. Canning, it may be observed, is here... | |
 | Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Bell - Politicians - 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...cent., Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent. GEORGE CANNING." The minister kept his word. While this singular despatch was on its way to the Hague,... | |
 | 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...cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent. GEORGE CANNING. The minister kept his word. While this singular despatch was on its way to the Hague,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...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:...cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent. GEOKGE CAN.MNO. The minister kept his word. While this singular despatch was on its way to the Hague,... | |
 | 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 - 668 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
