 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United Service Institution of India - 1890 - 1036 pages
...the battle is lost, a large part of the army is already at a distance and gets off unharmed. The man who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. But there was no escape for the man in armour, and when he turned his back, his shield was no defence.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...say 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... | |
 | 1872 - 866 pages
...so any time these ten years." We can trace the sentiment contained in the well-known 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pages
...striking contrast — the honest nobility of the one, the contemptible meanness of the other ? The man who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day, but, assuredly, it will be to fight only in the same Parthian style, discharging poisoned arrows and galloping... | |
 | 1872 - 872 pages
...their full inspiration: — ' Ho who fights and once is slain, Will never rise to fight «gain ; But he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day.' Thoy reached their canoe, which was hard and fast, but under such circumstances men do not know their... | |
 | Jean-Charles Houzeau - 1872 - 382 pages
...159, ed. Casa nli. 2. Shakspeare, First part of king Henri IV ; act. V, se. iv. — Et dans ces vers : He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. 3. Sismondi, Histoire des Républiques italiennes ; ch. Ixxix. 4. lUichaud. Biographie universelle... | |
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He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day. 
