“How much more grievous would our lives appear. 
    To reach th’ eight-hundredth, than the eightieth year!”
        —­Denham cor.

LESSON III.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced each other at the same time.”—­Lempriere cor. “Her two brothers were, one after the other, turned into stone.”—­Kames cor. “Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A gold ring, a silver cup.”—­Lennie cor. “Fire and water destroy each other”—­Wanostrocht cor. “Two negatives, in English, destroy each other, or are equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Lowth, Murray, et al. cor. “Two negatives destroy each other, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Kirkham and Felton cor. “Two negatives destroy each other, and make an affirmative.”—­Flint cor. “Two negatives destroy each other, being equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Frost cor. “Two objects, resembling each other, are presented to the imagination.”—­Parker cor. “Mankind, in order to hold converse with one an other, found it necessary to give names to objects.”—­Kirkham cor. “Derivative words are formed from their primitives in various ways.”—­Cooper cor. “There are many different ways of deriving words one from an other.”—­Murray cor. “When several verbs have a joint construction in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually expressed with the first only.”—­Frost cor. “Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and coming in immediate succession, are also separated by the comma.”—­Murray et al. cor. “Two or more adverbs, coming in immediate succession, must be separated by the comma.”—­Iidem.  “If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary.”—­Iidem.  “Gratitude, when exerted towards others, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a generous man.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Several verbs in the infinitive mood, coming in succession, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas.”—­Comly cor. “The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation one to an other.”—­Murray et al. cor. “When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] occur in immediate succession, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by the comma.”—­Comly cor. “One noun frequently follows an other, both meaning the same thing.”—­Sanborn cor. “And these two tenses may thus answer each other.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “Or some other relation which two objects bear to each other.”—­Jamieson cor. “That the heathens tolerated one