I should have no trouble but that of dictation, which would be performed as speedily as an amanuensis could write.
The circumstance that an amanuensis was employed, and the author writes the initials of his signature only, strengthens this impression.
The only difference it produced, that I am aware of, was its causing him to employ the hand of an amanuensis in place of his own.
The plan had been put before him in manuscript For the mechanical part of the work Johnson employed, as he told me, six amanuenses.
The story simply wanted a straightforward amanuensis to tell itself.
Examplesofamanuensis
amanuensis
One was to perform the duties of anamanuensisfor a composer, theatre, church or court.
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The classicalamanuensisrepresented speech in writing; the microscope'samanuensisrepresented sight in drawing while engaging in a critical mental maneuver.
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The cultural practices and variable literacy of the period resulted in the use of clerks, secretaries, and amanuenses.
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Although a scribe, clerk, deacon,amanuensisor chronicler might have had only one of these meanings in mind, the term served any or even all of them.
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Additional facilities, such as the use of a reader,amanuensisor a word processor, are also available.
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I want to know another thing, if theamanuensiswill take it down.
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Examination concessions also had to be sought to allow me to take public examinations; in my case this was anamanuensis.
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Of course, the author certainly will be self-employed and will not pay the tax, though possibly hisamanuensismight do so.
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However, he sat it informally, with anamanuensis, under the auspices of the agricultural college.
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He now works in a boarding-house and as anamanuensisfor a lawyer.
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He was educated privately, for his health, and so that he could act asamanuensisto his blind father.
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A mereamanuensisdoes not, by taking down word for word the language of the author, become in any sense the owner of the copyright.
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He continued writing with his daughter as hisamanuensis.
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She was devoted to her husband and acted as his secretary andamanuensis.
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He had used anamanuensisand an early version of a copying machine to make it quicker and easier for him to respond.
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