 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1832 - 142 pages
...to 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... | |
 | Charles Coleman - Asia - 1832 - 514 pages
...on the account given of Rahu, we shall not be surprised that Kartikeya thought with Hudibras, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Of this monster, whose mother so happily interposed, we are told in the third volume of the Asiatic... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...promised effect soon exposed the quackery, and the credit of the Doctor received a powerful shock. But, " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The hue and cry having wholly subsided, gave him an opportunity of breaking new ground, and coming... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837
...hope, will ' teach you better manners for the future.' Calling to mind the dignified precept, that ' He, who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day;' I made as safe a retreat as Xenophon did out of Asia ; and as quick an one as our neighbours are said... | |
 | John Mitchell - Eastern question (Central Asia) - 1838 - 414 pages
...and many other occasions, one party constantly illustrated the truth of the Hudibrastic lines, that He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; whilst the other party as constantly forgot, that only Those who are in battle slain Will not return... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 pages
...two. The remaining animal, finding himself the sole object of attack, adopted Hudibras's notion of " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" so, putting his tail between his legs, he made off with all possible speed. The hyena having found... | |
 | Fashion - 514 pages
...dear Louisa, which course 1 shall pursue." " The better part of valour is discretion, certainly, and he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day, as I have heard say, — dear Charles. But— I have once already endeavoured to "prove all better... | |
 | Sarah Rogers Haight - Egypt - 1840 - 344 pages
...field, and I very plainly saw with how much truth might in some cases be applied the old saying, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" for the pursuers had now become the pursued, and were falling back upon our new position. Partaking... | |
 | Enguerrand de Monstrelet - France - 1840 - 580 pages
...of other captains, and English gentlemen bearing coats of arms. Conformably to the old proverb, of " He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," did those act who fled and left their companions to bear the brunt of * Trrvicres,— a market-town... | |
 | American literature - 1841
...people will bear ? Miserable cowards, who boast that " discretion is the better part of valor," " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; " we advise you to attempt nothing at all. If you have not confidence enough in the people to trust... | |
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