Here are some of them: manual, manoeuver, mandate, manacle, manicure, manciple, emancipate, manage, manner, manipulate, manufacture, manumission, manuscript, amanuensis.

His now palsied hand required the services of an amanuensis.

Accept my thanks for the approbation you were pleased to express when I offered to become your amanuensis.

[305] Macbean (Johnson's old amanuensis, ante, i. 187) is not in Boswell's list of guests; but in the Pemb.

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.

The body of the above letter is in the handwriting of an amanuensis, but the signature and Postscript are in Sedgwick's handwriting.

Acting merely as his amanuensis, he has carefully abstained from comments of his own.[A]

By his arguments and entreaties, he aroused the zeal of many individuals, each of whom enlisted himself as a kind of voluntary amanuensis, who wrote and published his dictations.

"Can't you be my amanuensis,that sort of thing, you see?

I am but an amanuensis, my dear Captain Carlisle.

"I had not myself regarded any officer in the light of an oppressor of the distressed amanuensis," he went on.

Once in a while he cast an amused glance toward Carlisle, and at last remarked, as though continuing an arrested thought: "Amanuensis, is she?"

The choice of an amanuensis is one very important for a public man, not less so, I imagine, for a military man.

"I'll bet you every cent in this pile of my winnings here that that young lady isn't your amanuensis, and never has been.

Shadwell, the virulent antagonist of our author, has called him Sir Gilbert Pickering's clerk; and it is indeed highly probable that he was employed as his amanuensis, or secretary.

In 1780 he is still unready: "Were it not for want of a good amanuensis, I think I should make more progress."

And now there is an old gentleman who wants an amanuensis.

"And are you really going away from here to be an amanuensis?"

On the contrary, Tolstoy corrected and recorrected it so often that his wife, who acted as his amanuensis, is said to have copied the whole enormous manuscript no less than seven times!

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

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.

In order to shew the Absurdity of the Practice, he had recourse to the Invention above mentioned, having placed an Amanuensis in a private part of the Room.

There had, since that, been a correspondence as to much of which Mr. Scarborough had been forced to employ an amanuensis.

Benezet employed him occasionally, I mean in a friendly manner, as his amanuensis, to copy his manuscripts for publication, as well as several of his letters written in behalf of the cause.