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Updated: July 9, 2025
Transplanted by a victorious Roman general to Savoy from the lands between the Necker and the Main, they had descended into the Rhone basin at the invitation of the provincials, to protect that fertile land alike against Teutonic marauders and Roman tax-collectors.
Yesterday on the mountain, to-morrow in the woods, marching ten leagues during the night, hiding for days in succession in the nearest cave the Bagauder knows not to-day where he will be to-morrow." "It must, then, be a lucky accident that would make one run across them?" "A lucky accident for good people, an unlucky one for counts, bishops or tax-collectors!"
Dear to the London housemaid, The fife of fusilier, And to the Cockney urchin The drum of Booth is dear; Sweet sounds the barrel-organ Where'er the cits parade; But the dearest of all music The Tax-Collectors played. You will be glad to hear that scarcely had this grumble appeared in print when I saw a procession that made me think Birnam wood had come to Dunsinane.
There were also the frequent visits from the tax-collectors, and the payment to them of a sum that staggered Alan to think about, in the name of Rotation Tax. But even after taxes, legal fees, and other expenses, Alan found he owned better than nine hundred thousand credits, and the estate grew by investment every day.
Adam Trehearne, who's the plutocrat of the bunch, isn't so filthy rich he doesn't know what to do with all his money what the tax-collectors leave of it and the rest of them have to figure pretty closely. The most they could possibly scratch together was twenty-two thousand.
"It's costing us nearly two millions a year to run the country, and if that's withdrawn you will go bankrupt." "What McNeice said," I replied, "was that you were to clear out, bag, baggage, soldiers, police, tax-collectors, and the whole " "Tax-collectors!" said Clithering. "I'm not sure " "Didn't your Prime Minister say he'd be glad to get rid of us?
Even the statesmen of Rome herself publicly and frankly conceded that the Roman name was unutterably odious through all Greece and Asia; and, when the burgesses of the Pontic Heraclea on one occasion put to death the whole of the Roman tax-collectors, the only matter for regret was that such things did not occur oftener. Caesar and the Provinces
She has so many gold rings on her fingers that you can't see the dirt underneath; and she owns so many brothels and wine-shops that she can even buy off the tax-collectors. Do I love her? Do I love Rome? No! I love you, Sextus, son of Maximus, and I will go with you to the world's end if you will lead the way." "I love Rome," Sextus answered.
One of the tax-collectors went to the house of Wat the Tyler. His wife had the money for his tax and hers, but the man insolently demanded tax for the daughter, who is but a girl of twelve; and when her mother protested that the child was two years short of the age, he offered so gross an insult to the girl that she and her mother screamed out.
And as for the field-pieces, why, we have got wheels and may roll down cannon from Castle Weissenstein to Windisch-Matrey. But come, my dear friends, I see the Bavarian tax-collectors walking across the market-place yonder. They look very grim and stern, as if they meant to devour us all. Let us go out and see what is going on."
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