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In the Limousin the luckless creature had a special disadvantage, for here the collector of the _taille_ had also to collect the twentieths, and the twentieths were a tax for which even the privileged classes were liable.

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot John Morley 1880

Hilaire Belloc estimated that nineteen-twentieths of the people in England owned no productive property.

Distributism in 1955: The Present Distribution of Property 2008

Let it be his to cause a drove of swine to be driven along by a legion of devils; that is, by six thousand seven hundred, who take possession of these swine — there being three devils and seven-twentieths per pig — and drown them in a lake.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

That proletariat is certainly the, great mass of the State: it covers about nineteen twentieths of the population if we exclude Ireland, where, as I shall point out in my concluding pages, the reaction against Capitalism, and therefore against its development towards a Servile State, is already successful.

Belloc Speaks - The Reformers And The Reformed Are Alike/1 2007

It is most deplorable that, in nineteen-twentieths of

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

During the next one hundred and fifty years it yielded nineteen-twentieths of the revenue.

Land Value Tax 2 - A Panacea For The Housing Crisis Praguetory 2006

Proceeding upon these principles we appear to arrive at the conclusion that nineteen-twentieths of all the writings which have ever been ascribed to Plato, are undoubtedly genuine.

The First Alcibiades 2006

Even in 2000 C.E., nineteen-twentieths of mankind were still unassimilated to the organization.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

The principal impositions of the French government are these: first, the taille, payed by all the commons, except those that are privileged: secondly, the capitation, from which no persons (not even the nobles) are excepted: thirdly, the tenths and twentieths, called Dixiemes and Vingtiemes, which every body pays.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Do you think that he wishes to pay money to the collectors of twentieths?

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004