 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...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 per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...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...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 cent. GEORGE... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 396 pages
...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...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 cent.... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 pages
...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...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 cent. GEORGE... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 672 pages
...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 per cent., Twenty per cent,, Nous frapperons... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...cipher, and at length read as follows : — " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch " Is giving too little and 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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1860 - 1182 pages
...matter in the following well-known lines : — "In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal advantage...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 noble Lord the Secretary... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...cleared up, the despatch was as follows : — " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch la giving too little, and asking too much. With equal advantage...French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent., Twenty per cent., Twenty per cent., Nos frapperons Falck with twenty per cent.... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1867 - 432 pages
...Anti-Jacobin. CXCVL A POLITICAL DESPATCH. IN matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal advantage...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 cent.... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 670 pages
...Secretary's whim. MR 1. Separate, Secret, and Conjidenüal. (In Cypher.) Foreign Office, January 31", 1826. Sir, In matters of Commerce the fault of the Dutch is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage ') Not ,,In matters of commerce". The Dntch are remnrkable for... | |
| |
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent. 
