 | Dr. Doran (John) - Diet - 1854 - 564 pages
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another. day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do — " For... | |
 | 1854 - 542 pages
...superciliously through her glass. ' Well, Maurice,' said the doctor, ' returned from the wars, I see — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Do you remember the old couplet of Pindar's V ' That is not Peter Pindar's, sir; you are quoting from... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...felt a wound. Romeoand Juliet, actii, scene 2. SHAKEN 1 Hide your diminished rays. Third Moral Es. 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.1 Musarum Delicice, 1656. MENNIS AND SMITH.... | |
 | James Melville Gilliss - Scientific expeditions - 1855 - 616 pages
...prisoners; and the remainder, perhaps four hundred and fifty, adopting the belief of Falstaff, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," "made tracks" for the city. This was quietly surrendered next day, after exchanging one or two notes,... | |
 | 1856 - 436 pages
...the only true philosophy. There is no Chinese soldier who has it not already as a principle— "That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day;" and who does not believe that, under existing circumstances, this is the only course open to a rational... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 pages
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do — " For... | |
 | John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...Garcino did not attempt to retaliate. No, he acted under a better — to his taste — standing rule, " 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." and had at length slipped the bolt,... | |
 | Sir Vivian Dering Majendie - India - 1859 - 394 pages
...amount of resolution, we might have had some trouble in taking ; but Pandy, ever true to the maxim that "he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," had, as I have before said, made his exit directly we approached. The 1st Bengal Fusiliers were left... | |
 | 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 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... | |
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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. 
