101 examples of amanuenses in sentences

The Society so called consisted at first of no more than three members, one of whom, being Mr. Bentham's amanuensis, obtained for us permission to hold our meetings in his house.

During his old age his literary work was largely dependent on the kindness of friends, who read to him, and acted as his amanuenses.

For the sake of being near his printer, while the Dictionary was on the anvil, he took a convenient house in Gough Square, near Fleet-street, and fitted up one room in it as an office, where six amanuenses were employed in transcribing for him, of whom Boswell recounts in triumph that five were Scotchmen.

I might indeed, (had I wisely done) observed that precept of the poet, nonumque prematur in annum, and have taken more care: or, as Alexander the physician would have done by lapis lazuli, fifty times washed before it be used, I should have revised, corrected and amended this tract; but I had not (as I said) that happy leisure, no amanuenses or assistants.

Amanuenses were summoned, who took down those dying admonitions, and in the time of Tacitus they still were extant.

Hence a rich Roman liked to have people of literary culture among his slaves; he liked to have people at hand who would get him any information which he might desire about books, who could act as his amanuenses, who could even correct and supply information for his original compositions.

Most of the amanuenses employed for his Dictionary were Scotch.

* * Ivanhoe "Ivanhoe," in common with "The Legend of Montrose" and "The Bride of Lammermoor," was written, or rather dictated to amanuenses, during a period of great physical suffering; "through fits of suffering," says one of Scott's biographers, "so great that he could not suppress cries of agony.

But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?

With religious veneration they saw him adjust his spectacles in order to read as an expert the bill of sale or dowry contract that his amanuenses had just drawn up.

Francis Stuart or Stewart was one of Johnson's amanuenses (ante, i. 187).

Johnson wrote in his own hand the words and their explanation, and generally two or three words in each column, leaving a space between each for the authorities, which were pasted on as they were collected by the different amanuenses employed: and in this mode the MS. was so regular that the sheets of MS. which made a sheet of print could be very exactly ascertained.'

350, n. 1; about one of Johnson's amanuenses, iv. 262, n. 1; Taylors of Christ Church, confounds two, i. 76, n. 1; Walpole, Horace, identifies with a celebrated wit, iii.

413, n. 2. MAITLAND, Mr., one of Johnson's amanuenses, i. 187.

PEYTON, Mr., Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187; ii. 155; death, ii. 379, n. 1.

431; Irish, compared with the, ii. 307; iv. 169, n. 1; jealousy, ii. 306; Johnson's amanuenses Scotch, i. 187; ii. 307; antipathy to the Scotch, cannot account for his, iv.

SHIELS, R., Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187, 241; share in Cibber's Lives of the Poets, i. 187; iii. 29-31, 37, 117. SHIP, worse than a gaol, i. 348; ii. 438; v. 137, 249; misery of the sailors' quarters, iii. 266; hospital, ib,, n. 2; worse than a Highland inn, v. 147.

STEWART, Dugald, authorship in Scotland, ii. 53, n. 1; existence of matter, i. 471, n. 2; Glasgow University, at, v. 369, n. 3; Hume's Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2; Select Society, The, v. 393, n. 4; Smith's, Adam, conversation, iii. 307, n. 2; peculiarities, iv. 24, n. 2. STEWART, Francis, Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187; Johnson buys his old pocket-book, iii. 418, 421; and a letter, iv.

For this purpose, men of letters are engaged, who cannot even be supplied with amanuenses, but at an expense above that of a common catalogue.

The plan had been put before him in manuscript For the mechanical part of the work Johnson employed, as he told me, six amanuenses.

But I could trust Andreas to dare and to endureto overcome obstacles, and, if man could, to "get there," where, in the base-quarters in Bucharest, the amanuenses were waiting to copy out in round hand for the foreign telegraphist the rapid script of the correspondent scribbling for life in the saddle or the cleft of a commanding tree while the shells were whistling past.

The words must be dictated to amanuenses.

If the historians were simply the amanuenses of the Infinite Spirit, then of course they could not have erred in anything they recorded.

I have even reason to believe that not only the composition, the clothing of the ideas, but the ideas themselves, originated generally with the writers; that Hamilton and Harrison, in particular, were scarcely in any degree his amanuenses.

Large portions of it were dictated to his devoted amanuenses as he walked, or sat, on the terraces of Lancrigg.

101 examples of  amanuenses  in sentences