Amyot

Brian Amyot: There is something very nice about living in Queens -- Astoria specifically.

Jacqueline Colette Prosper: Do We Need Girlfriends or Cashmere Jungle? 2008

Many persons have maintained that the French language has been impoverished since the days of Montaigne and Amyot, because expressions abound in these authors which are no longer employed; but these are for the most part terms for which equivalents have been found.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Several also, who have possessed this title, have taken good care of writing history; they have followed the example of Amyot, who said that he was too much attached to his masters to write their lives.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Tsapelas, Acevedo and Amyot met as film students at Hofstra University on Long Island; they formed Ragtag Productions explicitly to produce We Need Girlfriends, the first episode of which was posted a year ago.

Who Needs Girlfriends When You Have a Development Deal? 2007

This was the cause that Marot never succeeded in the serious style, and that Amyot was unable to give a version of the elegant simplicity of Plutarch.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Amyot, in his maize area production report, says maize planting in the Karoi and Tengwe districts was now complete.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Of the others, we need mention only the French one of Amyot, (1558,) not for its merits, but from the author's having been rewarded by Henry II. of France with the nomination to an abbey -- as if in tardy compensation to Heliodorus, in the person of his literary representative, for the see from which the authorship is said to have caused his expulsion.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Later Père Amyot published a version in French for Francis I., who was so delighted with the result that he made the translator abbé of Belozane.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

But, although Amyot had "a true imagination" of his author, he was not always exact in giving his meaning.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

His _dii majores_ were Montaigne and Amyot, and Paul Louis Courier, a learned

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various