 | Arts - 1868 - 808 pages
...confess it at once — a pair of legs of wonderful capacity to verify the truth of the lines, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The battle is daily renewed : its guerdon is nothing less than life or death. The diminutive champion... | |
 | 1869 - 646 pages
...term Union Jack is a mere abbreviation of "Jacobus." J. BOCIETT. QUERY. WHERE does this occur ?— " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." J. BOCXETT. OUR EXCHANGE. A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION of 320 Foreign Postage Stamps in Album, and a good... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...BUTLER. Hudibras. Partiu. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a new Plan. Edited by OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 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.* From the Abridgement of the Chronicles... | |
 | 1870 - 580 pages
...the paper in which he attacks us. And he threatens us to tight it out, like Grant, on that line. " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." DECISIONS AND ANSWERS OF. THE MW GRAND MASTER. [ By the courtesy of our worthy Grand Master, we extract... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - English language - 1870 - 618 pages
...parents in the Lord, is a divine precept. 5. The sun, arising, enlightened the cavern. XYZ = ^Y Z. 6. He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day. 7. "We drove the horses into a field, surrounded by a high fence. XYZ = XGeneral Analysis. X, We; Y,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...Water-rat," the Dutch. * See Suetonius, Calif;. 4& * There is a couplet usually said to be in Hudibras — He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. No such lines are in the poem : they occur in an old volume of Apophthegms translated by Nicholas Udal... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1870 - 884 pages
...herself in a battle (which is more than some people do), and was a firm believer in the maxim, that " He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day," for whenever a battle occurred she would flee to the baggage-wagons. She soon became an experienced... | |
 | Hips - 1871 - 106 pages
...the little busy bee my cruel fate bewail ! 31 ' What can alone ennoble fight f A noble cause' 1. ' He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day.' 2. ' I love my father's northern land, Where the dark pine-trees grow, And the bold Baltic's echoing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...so any time these ten years." We can trace the sentiment contained in the wellknown lines — " For he who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day," to Demosthenes, who, when he fled from the rabble and was reproached for it, said " that he that flies... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1872 - 64 pages
...hujo is a common proverb in Spain. 146. No HUYE el que fe retira. He who retires does not fly. n. 28. He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. 147. Crealo JUDAS. Believe it, Judas. n. 70. Credat Judxus. — HORACE, Serm. I. i. Ioo. 148. IOLESIA,... | |
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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. 
