 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Electrotherapeutics - 1804 - 242 pages
...was preparing himself to give Learherhead a most terrible threshing, had he not yielded) still, ' He who fights and runs away, ' May live to fight another day ;' and the Doctor escaping with a whole skin is now left alive and mighty to assail the supporters of Perkinism... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - American poetry - 1806 - 320 pages
...was preparing himself to give Leatherhead a most terrible threshing, had he not yielded) still " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" and the doctor escaping with a whole skin is now left alive and mighty to assail the supporters of Perkinism... | |
 | Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...?" Not Madifon — not Gelatin : But Mr. Jetferfon has proved " able," it not valorous — for " The man who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day." We hope that no man in the United S ates wjll pretend to be the equal of Hamilton as a financier, and... | |
 | 1809 - 592 pages
...uncommon degree of merit HUDIBRAS. It is a pretty generally received opinion, that the four lines, " The man who fights, and runs away, " May live to fight another day : " But he, that is in battle slain, " Will never live to fight again:" arc a portion of the saving... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 588 pages
...uncommon degree of merit. HlIDIRRAS. It is a pretty generally received opinion, that the four lines, " The man who fights, and runs away, " May live to fight another day : " But he, that is in battle slain, " Will never live to fight again:" are a portion of the saving... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1811 - 622 pages
...the point, that it would seem as if he had been studying Hudibras; and had learned that— ^ *" The man who fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day." —But the noble Lord flinched from arguing the question, knowing that— " He, who is in battle slain,... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...— ita,\tv j The man who runs away — will fight another day. The common proverbial lines are, The man who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. frequently mixed with the ordinary ten syllable verses of Dryden, &c., and sometimes, but much more... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1832 - 142 pages
...the combat. It was short-sighted policy at the best. Experience might have taught him that — u He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day :" and he might have known too — thanks to the freedom of the press — that other means were open by which... | |
 | William Richard Harris (writer of verse.) - 1847 - 80 pages
...Hudibras" in " doggrel" verse, of which the following four lines are not a bad imitation :— " The man who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Shall never live to fight again !" Pope says, " For he who runs may fight... | |
 | Gift books - 1851 - 328 pages
...many were ill-natured enough to believe) that he had acted upon the very discreet principle, that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day," and had been by no means disposed to run the foolish risk of being " in battle slain," as in that case... | |
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The man who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day," Said Butler in his deathless lay. 
