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 twenty per cent. — George Canning Copy Share Image
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content,… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a… — George Canning Copy Share Image
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. — George Canning Copy Share Image
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens,… — George Canning Copy Share Image
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. — George Canning Copy Share Image
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not,… — George Canning Copy Share Image
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery… — George Canning Copy Share Image
