...but in the published poems of Sir John Mennes, a clerk in the Admiralty, in the time of Charles II. " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," &c. This may be an instance of accidental resemblance in Mennes and Butler: such petty larceny as has...

...but in the published poems of Sir John Mennes, a clerk in the Admiralty, in the time of Charles II. " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," &c. This may be an instance of accidental resemblance in Mennes and Butler: such petty larceny as has...

...people will bear ? Miserable cowards, who boast that " discretion is the better part of valor," " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; " we advise you to attempt nothing at all. If you have not confidence enough in the people to trust...

...reprehensible cowardice. Discretion is the better part of valour ; for in the language of Hudibras, — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again." Dr. Mc'Intosh, a late lecturer on the Practice...

...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,...

...the better part of valour," and wholly free from any silly disregard for the memorable adage that " He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day.*' Yes, these were the essential but difficult lessons required to be taught the Woolwich youth — these...

...which consists in a very high degree of discretion, suggesting to its possessor, not merely that, " he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day ;" bnt that he who runs away without fighting, has a better chance of coming to a future conflict unmaimed...

...happy for the world that neither of them had too much mauvaite honte to act on the maxim, that — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." If his epicurean habits should he urged, it must he remembered that he was a pagan ; that it was the...

...French force. I give the yea d" esprit from memory : — " Two warriors said, and who'll gainsay, That he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But gallant MURHAY doth surpass That valiant hero Hudibrax ; For Sir John holds, that it is right To run...

...which consists in a very high degree of discretion, suggesting to its possessor, not merely that, " he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day ;" but that he who runs away without fighting, has a better chance of coming H to a future conflict unmutilated....