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" For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. "
The Modern Philosopher: Or Terrible Tractoration! In Four Cantos, Most ... - Page 216
by Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 271 pages
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The ladder of gold, Volume 3

Robert Bell - 1850 - 336 pages
...security running over to the Continent— strengthening his argument by reference to the famous text— He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. prospect of fighting another day was about the least persuasive. Winston declared he would stand his...
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The ladder of gold, Volume 3

Robert Bell - 1850 - 336 pages
...security running over to the Continent— strengthening his argument by reference to the famous text— He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But, unfortunately, of all the reasons he could have selected at that moment for running away, the...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 28

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1850 - 724 pages
...security running over to the Continent — strengthening his argument by reference to the famous text— " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." But, unfortunately, of all the reasons he could have selected at that moment for running away, the...
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A Continuation of the Memoirs of a Working Man

Thomas Carter - 1850 - 248 pages
...My opinion, however, is, that upon the subject of fighting he held the doctrine which teaches that " He -who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day ; While he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again." Yet he might, had he been tried,...
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The Keepsake

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 Kinnears [by H. Keddie].

Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 922 pages
...all like the alternative." " Will you try another game ? fortune does not always frown." " Ah ! ' but he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' " " So you hold that ' discretion is the better part of valour.' Willie does not countenance that...
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Comparative Physiognomy: Or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals

James W. Redfield - Anatomy, Comparative - 1852 - 348 pages
...none. The Irish have to be parted. Not so the Spaniards : they fight upon the principle — " That he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day !" The military ambition of the Spaniard is concentrated in a victorious contest with John Bull —...
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St. George; Or, The Canadian League, Volume 2

William Charles McKinnon - American fiction - 1852 - 336 pages
...Oh, you know," remarked Rodolphe, with a sneer, " that ' discretion is the best part of valor,' and ' he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' It is an ugly thing to see the Judge put on the black cap, and pronounce the awful words, 'the sentence...
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The Baronet's Family: A Novel

Anne Beale - 1852 - 382 pages
...enemy, but no sooner was his courage tried, than he found he could not stand fire, and proved that He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. In vain his tormentor, Morgan, praised his fortune and his person, and urged him to the charge ; he...
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Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ...

George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...Lord Chesterfield, are thus, in a volume entitled, " The Pleasing Companion, or Guide to Fame." — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and tight again." It is also said they are to be found...
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