Монк, Джордж, герцог Альбемарль цитаты

Джордж Монк, 1-й герцог Альбемарль — английский полководец и адмирал, архитектор Реставрации королевской власти в Англии в 1660 году.

С 1660 года — барон Монк, барон Бошан, барон Тейз, граф Торрингтон, герцог Альбемарль.

Лорд-лейтенант Девона , Ирландии и Миддлсекса , лорд-казначей Англии . Wikipedia

✵ 6. Декабрь 1608 – 3. Январь 1670

Монк, Джордж, герцог Альбемарль: Цитаты на английском языке

“Little General Monck
Sat upon a trunk,
Eating a crust of bread;
There fell a hot coal
And burnt in his clothes a hole,
Now little General Monck is dead.”

Help us translate this quote

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

Nursery rhyme; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed. 1997), pp365-6
About

“What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.”

Help us translate this quote

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

During the Second Anglo-Dutch War. <br class="br"> The myth of the free market: the role of the state in a capitalist economy by Mark Anthony Martinez, p. 116 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M97-cI2V080C&pg=PA116&dq=%22What+matters+this+or+that+reason%3F+What+we+want+is+more+of+the+trade+which+the+Dutch+now+have.%22&hl=en&ei=pePHTKXJDoqOjAfo_vFK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22What%20matters%20this%20or%20that%20reason%3F%20What%20we%20want%20is%20more%20of%20the%20trade%20which%20the%20Dutch%20now%20have.%22&f=false