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Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1884)
"Let me conclude with a parting word of advice to the noble army of amateurs.
Be an amateur anything you like—an amateur casual, ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Now Doré paints like an amateur,—i«, in fact, so far as painting goes, an amateur,
and considers himself so, his profession being that of a designer on wood ..."
3. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
"In the English Review he makes out a very good case for what he calls the amateur
composer—that is to say, not the composer who writes like an amateur (none ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"These particulars ** Amateur" jumbles to- jether, even like an amateur, not being
able to separate, iu argument, one from another. I observe again fand what ..."
5. The Musical World (1869)
"... he occasionally writes like an amateur. He doe« not write with a flick, he
writes with a very good pen ; only he sometimes forgets to mend it. ..."
6. The Nineteenth Century (1891)
"An amateur seaman is not like an amateur soldier—the sea admits of no carpet
knights. In matters of seamanship—boat handling, sailing, and navigation—there ..."
7. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"... Titania " Mr. Boyesen tries to deal with American materials, and he handles
them like an amateur, not like one to the manner born. ..."
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