OBS. 12.—­The preposition into, expresses a relation produced by motion or change; and in, the same relation, without reference to motion as having produced it:  hence, “to walk into the garden,” and, “to walk in the garden,” are very different in meaning.  “It is disagreeable to find a word split into two by a pause.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 83.  This appears to be right in sense, but because brevity is desirable in unemphatic particles, I suppose most persons would say, “split in two.”  In the Bible we have the phrases, “rent in twain,”—­“cut in pieces,”—­“brake in pieces the rocks,”—­“brake all their bones in pieces,”—­“brake them to pieces,”—­“broken to pieces,”—­“pulled in pieces.”  In all these, except the first, to may perhaps be considered preferable to in; and into would be objectionable only because it is longer and less simple.  “Half of them dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces.”—­SHAK.:  Kames, ii, 246.

OBS. 13.—­Between, or betwixt, is used in reference to two things or parties; among, or amongst, amid, or amidst, in reference to a greater number, or to something by which an other may be surrounded:  as, “Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.”—­Byron.  “The host between the mountain and the shore.”—­Id. “To meditate amongst decay, and stand a ruin amidst ruins.”—­Id. In the following examples, the import of these prepositions is not very accurately regarded; “The Greeks wrote in capitals, and left no spaces between their words.”—­Wilson’s Essay, p. 6.  This construction may perhaps be allowed, because the spaces by which words are now divided, occur severally between one word and an other; but the author might as well have said, “and left no spaces to distinguish their words.”  “There was a hunting match agreed upon betwixt a lion, an ass, and a fox.”—­L’Estrange.  Here by or among would, I think, be better than betwixt, because the partners were more than two. “Between two or more authors, different readers will differ, exceedingly, as to the preference in point of merit.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 162; Jamieson’s, 40; Murray’s Gram., i, 360.  Say, “Concerning two or more authors,” because between is not consistent with the word more.  “Rising one among another in the greatest confusion and disorder.”—­Spect., No. 476.  Say, “Rising promiscuously,” or, “Rising all at once;” for among is not consistent with the distributive term one an other.