“The serpent, subtil’st beast of all the field,
    I knew; but not with human voice indu’d.” 
        —­MILTON:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Human.

   “How much more grievous would our lives appear,
    To reach th’ eighth hundred, than the eightieth year?”
        —­DENHAM:  B. P., ii, 244.

LESSON III.—­MIXED.

“Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced one another at the same time.”—­Lempriere’s Dict.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the phrase one another is here applied to two persons only, the words an and other being needlessly compounded.  But, according to Observation 15th, on the Classes of Adjectives, each other must be applied to two persons or things, and one an other to more than two.  Therefore one another should here be each other; thus, “Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced each other at the same time.”]

“Her two brothers were one after another turned into stone.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 194.  “Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A gold-ring, a silver-cup.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 14.  “Fire and water destroy one another.”—­Wanostrocht’s Gram., p. 82.  “Two negatives in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 94; E.  Devis’s, 111; Mack’s, 147; Murray’s, 198; Churchill’s, 148; Putnam’s, 135; C.  Adams’s, 102; Hamlin’s, 79; Alger’s, 66; Fisk’s, 140; Ingersoll’s, 207; and many others.  “Two negatives destroy one another, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 191; Felton’s, 85.  “Two negatives destroy one another and make an affirmative.”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 79.  “Two negatives destroy one another, being equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Frost’s El. of E. Gram., p. 48.  “Two objects, resembling one another, are presented to the imagination.”—­Parker’s Exercises in Comp., p. 47.  “Mankind, in order to hold converse with each other, found it necessary to give names to objects.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 42.  “Words are derived from each other[185] in various ways.”—­Cooper’s Gram., p. 108.  “There are many other ways of deriving words from one another.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 131.  “When several verbs connected by conjunctions, succeed each other in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually omitted except with the first.”—­Frost’s Gram., p. 91.  “Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and immediately following one another, are also separated by commas.” [186]—­Murray’s Gram., p. 270; C.  Adams’s, 126; Russell’s, 113; and others.  “Two or more adverbs immediately succeeding each other, must be separated by commas.”—­Same