The phrase "assumed himself" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express someone taking on a role or identity, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "He assumed himself to be the leader of the group, despite not being elected."
Alternatives: "considered himself" or "took on the role of".
To prepare for what would now have to be the campaign of 1942, Hitler dismissed a number of generals and assumed himself the strategic and operational command of the armies on the Eastern Front.
All the more astonishing, as Nicholas Shakespeare's superb new novel illustrates so well, because the tensions between the two societies divided by the wall make for such a rich literary backdrop.At the age of 16, Peter Hithersay discovers that far from being the honourable English schoolboy he has always assumed himself to be, he is half-German and illegitimate.
No such person has yet been found and some analysts are calling on Abbas to assume himself the premiership and appoint a West Bank and a Gaza deputy as an interim step, until elections can take place.
He assumed for himself and his issue the surname of Mountbatten.
One problem: he is not willing to give up the general manager role he has assumed for himself, and that's a problem.
And this commentator role he has assumed for himself is sort of admirable in that he writes with such confidence and conviction from a position that very few intellectual contemporaries would be able to take up.
Maybe in Florida they sang hymns in their bikinis, but that wouldn't fly up here!" The shifting points of view can be a bit confusing, but the device has a wonderful payoff - Stradal is so good at evoking the inner lives of his characters, male and female, young and old, that for about two-thirds of the novel, I assumed he himself was female.
Gates had assigned the left wing of the defenses to Arnold, and assumed command himself of the right, which was nominally assigned to General Lincoln, whom Gates had detached in August with some troops to harass the British positions behind Burgoyne's army.
In doing so, Anthony is assuming them himself.
That secret died with Parker -- assuming he himself knew what it was.
Anyone attempting to examine stupidity, he argued, "must assume about himself that he is not stupid" -- and that is sure proof that he is.
