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If so, what is he but their amanuensis--the recorder of their decrees?--the office which Sir Charles Bagot sustained on account of his illness; but whose example, in such circumstances, can not be laid down as a general rule Responsible government was a mere theory with the late Council, or until they came into office under Sir Charles Bagot.— The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
It took nearly ten days for answer to reach him, and Loring hid himself away to read it when the letter came, addressed in a hand he knew too well Naomi, my beloved sister, is prostrated by her sorrows and anxieties," it began, "and I must be her amanuensis--I who would die for her, yet who shrink from this task, well knowing, though she does not, how hard it is to write to one to whom I have given perhaps such infinite pain.— A Wounded Name
52 The bare fact of my letter being by the hand of an amanuensis will be a sign of the amount of my engagements.— The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

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