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" The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets. "
The first book of geography - Página 42
por Thomas Bowring - 1841 - 142 páginas
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Cottage Comforts: With Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience ...

Esther Copley - 1834 - 254 páginas
...are all made by tha Dutch children for their own amusement; hence there is a proverb which says, ' The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What...the children of England take pleasure in breaking.' Now I don't grudge the poor little Dutchmen getting rich by their play, but I see no reason in the...
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The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1

Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1836 - 226 páginas
...the passion for knick-knacks we are apt to attribute to the French. But as, according to the adage, "The children of Holland take pleasure in making,...the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets. Of this...
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The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1

Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1836 - 282 páginas
...the passion for knickknacks we are apt to attribute to the French. But as, according to the adage, " The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What...the children of England take pleasure in breaking," I believe their bijouterie and nowieautes are chiefly manufactured. for the foreign markets. Of this...
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The diary of a désennuyée [by C.G.F. Gore].

Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1836 - 608 páginas
...the passion for knick-knacks we are apt to attribute to the French. But as, according to the adage, " The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What...the children of England take pleasure in breaking ;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets. Of this...
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Cottage comforts, with hints for promoting them

Esther Copley, afterwards COPLEY HEWLETT (Esther) - 1841 - 248 páginas
...they are all made by the Dutch children for their own amusement; hence there is a proverb which says, "The children of Holland take pleasure in making,...the children of England take pleasure in breaking." Now I don't grudge the poor little Dutchmen getting rich by their play, but I see no reason in the...
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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 308 páginas
...version of these common proverbial lines, given by Mr. Denham, p. 16. Clarty-paps are dirty sluts. The children of Holland Take pleasure in making What...the children of England Take pleasure in breaking. Alluding to toys, a great number of which are imported into this country from Holland. 188 VIII.—...
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Lessons on industrial education, for the use of female schools [ed.] by a ...

Lessons - 1849 - 244 páginas
...Dutch children for their own amusement : hence there is a proverb which says, " The children of'Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking." Now I don't grudge the poor little Dutchmen getting rich by their play, but I see no reason in the...
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The Meaning of Words: Analysed Into Words and Unverbal Things, and Unverbal ...

Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1854 - 272 páginas
...physically, the physical particulars only to which the affirmation refers. A nursery couplet says, " The children of Holland take pleasure in making, what...the children of England take pleasure in breaking." I want to avoid a like conduct if possible, though it is quite prevalent in speculative controversy....
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The Meaning of Words: Analysed Into Words and Unverbal Things, and Unverbal ...

Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1862 - 268 páginas
...physically, the physical particulars only to which the affirmation refers. A nursery couplet says, "The children of Holland take pleasure in making,...the children of England take pleasure in breaking." I want to avoid a like conduct if possible, though it is quite prevalent in speculative controversy....
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Reading books, adapted to the requirements of the Revised code, ed ..., Volumen3

Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 160 páginas
...and make quantities of toys, which are sent over to England, to be sold. There is a saying that, " The children of Holland take pleasure in making What...the children of England take pleasure in breaking." The Dutch look rather old fashioned, not at all unlike Noah and his family in the arks you buy at the...
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