| 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... | |
| Thomas Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Anne Beale - 1852 - 392 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... | |
| 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 —... | |
| Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...distance, fled the field— doubtless he remembered the advice wrongly attributed to " Hudibras," that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Uis great object was to find out Nathalie, and acquaint her with the failure of his project. He knew... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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