diemens

Updated: July 12, 2025

In this consistent level of irony there are undoubtedly exalted patches of more than merely verbal humour, such as, for example, Sir Charles Repton's jolly speech at the Van Diemens meeting, in which he outlines with enormous gusto the principles of procedure of modern finance. Now just see what that shilling will do! "In the first place it'll give publicity and plenty of it.

C. Creighton Mandell - Hilaire Belloc: The Man and His Work