Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
No taxgatherer in the British Dominions — that wide – spread territory on which the sun never sets, and where the tax – gatherer never goes to bed — was more regular and persevering in his calls than ❋ Unknown (2007)
The grim janitor relented at the touch of my money, which he took with all the indifference of a taxgatherer, and showed me into a parlour, where, he said, I might amuse myself till such time as his lord should be awake. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid chiefly by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States? ❋ Unknown (1989)
In truth, it may be said that nature is our taxgatherer, levying by her immutable laws tribute from the banks of rivers and from the summits of mountains thousands of miles distant to enrich, improve, and adorn our favored city. ' ❋ Various (N/A)
"Besides, the best people in Jerusalem might hold it against him that he was a taxgatherer," added James, without thinking how his words sounded. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He was a taxgatherer, as Matthew once had been, and had grown rich collecting taxes. ❋ Norman F. Langford (N/A)
"He's gone to be the guest of that miserable, cheating traitor of a taxgatherer!" ❋ Norman F. Langford (N/A)
The trouble with Levi was that he was a taxgatherer. ❋ Norman F. Langford (N/A)
It is only vanity and folly and vexation of spirit to quarrel with the modern English taxgatherer; you are sure to go the wall, with humiliation and with disgrace. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
It seems that he had been called upon by the local taxgatherer for his poll-tax, a matter of ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
They will not think it expedient that Congress shall be the taxgatherer and paymaster of all their State governments, thus amalgamating all their officers into one mass of common interest and common feeling. ❋ Unknown (1878)
The most productive and convenient sources of revenue were necessarily given to it, that it might be able to perform the important duties imposed upon it; and the taxes which it lays upon commerce being concealed from the real payer in the price of the article, they do not so readily attract the attention of the people as smaller sums demanded from them directly by the taxgatherer. ❋ Unknown (1878)
This was Dr. Benjamin Franklin, the patriot and the philosopher; and I cannot but express a confident hope that the city and the state of which he was so distinguished an ornament will never permit the hands of the taxgatherer to diminish the fund devoted to the interests of science in every part of the world, both in peace and in war, and belonging to a society of which be was the founder. ❋ Unknown (1863)
When the occupation of a house is transferred from a man to a woman, say to the widow of the former owner, that home loses the privilege of representation in the imperial government, though its relations with the taxgatherer continue unaltered. ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1862)
