 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...Sc. 2, v. 1-4. For those that fly may fight again, Which he ean never do that's slain. — Uudibras. He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. — SIR JOHS MINSES. But DEMOSTHENES, the famous Greeian orator, had said, long before, — & ysvf,av... | |
 | Thomas Lowe - India - 1860 - 426 pages
...Joshua. At Dhar there was much to favour the escape of an enemy who chose to apply the adage, — " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Our force was, in reality, very small to effect the reduction of such a stronghold ; we were lamentably... | |
 | Charles W. Thomas, Chas. W. Thomas - Africa, West - 1860 - 492 pages
...the water by the natives. The party on shore was in great disorder, and remembering the adage that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," took to their heels, leaving the field-piece to the enemy, and went into town at the rate of a great... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham, Mary Caroline Maberly - 1861 - 164 pages
...necessary. We may, if we choose, say he who steab, &c. A well-known pair of couplets runs thus — He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Will never live to fight again. If it were not, however, for the metre,... | |
 | William Henry G. Kingston - 1862 - 502 pages
...The other ships imitated their leader's example. They were practically illustrating the adage of " He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day." One after another, the British ships found themselves without opponents. They endeavoured to make sail... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 262 pages
...rampant with the sword as pen, They had laid down that good old plan Of safety to a cornered man : " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain, Will never live to fight again !" And as their fighting men were... | |
 | Dental instruments and apparatus - 1860 - 428 pages
...self-interest for the protection of that profession, and the vindication of a professional principle ; but ' He who fights, and runs away, May -live to fight another day.' " The article in the June number of the Register from which the above extracts were made, is the last... | |
 | Conway Keith - 1863 - 318 pages
...retorted Adelaide. " Discretion is the best part of valour — that is your creed, it seems." " ' For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." " Well, Mrs. Meredith," continued Adelaide, " I am at your service for to-morrow's ride, and if the... | |
 | James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 pages
...fought in a cabbage-garden, and the victory achieved by complying with the poetic prescription — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." It may be guessed how he wonld have sought the liberty and welfare of the WORKING Irishman by the system... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 370 pages
...chose This stratagem t'amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And waive a total sure defeat: 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. Hence timely running's no mean part Of... | |
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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. 
