 | Allan Webb - Diseases - 1848 - 668 pages
...shewed by his action, я mental perception, that " the better part of valour is— discretion,"for "He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Yet few are found hardy enough to assert now, that the brain is of no use. Whilst many, with Erasistratus,*... | |
 | Allan Webb - Diseases - 1848 - 668 pages
...yet shewed by his action, a mental perception, that "the better part of valouris — discretion,"for "He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Yet few are found hardy enough to assert now, that the brain is of no use. Whilst many, with Erasistratus,*... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 696 pages
...August a, ISM. London : W. MACINTOSH & Co-. 24. Paternoster Row. EG, and of all Booksellers. •• He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day." FOR an exhaustive Discussion as to the Authorship of this famous couplet, send three postage stamps... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...Uiiubault's curious and interesting taaaunication. 1. Dues not the entire quotation run somewhat • For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he tliat is in battel slain Can never hope to fight again "? 2. Are the two hut lines in the Musarum Defiat... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...subject to which they refer is still 1'rcsh in the minds of your renders. MEI.ANION. The lines — " For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day," resemble the following quatrain in the Satyre Menippíe, being one of several verses appended to the... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Astronomical observatories - 1851 - 458 pages
...Virgil's. In like manner, the following passage has been almost universally ascribed to Butler :— For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But it is nowhere to be found in that poet's works: a parallel appears, however, in Hudibras (1. Hi. canto... | |
 | Brewin Grant - 1851 - 66 pages
...or else run away. They have preferred the latter course, not according to that adage — " The man that fights and runs away May live to fight another day," but as Dr. Jortin amended it — " May live to run another day." For the same Author assures us, that "... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...Fronabargor's courage failed him, and he made his escape, believing, no doubt, with Uudibras, that . , • . " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Richards was then directed to retreat as fast as his wounded condition would permit. Forney, in the... | |
 | Thomas H. Usborne - 1852 - 252 pages
...but have wisely taken to their heels, reflecting upon something similar to those well known lines : " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that in the battle 's slain. Can never live to fight again." The next morning there was a summons for... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1852 - 228 pages
...was curious. I am a philosopher, and on these occasions generally repeat to myself the wise saw— 1 He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day.' So, deeming discretion the better part of valour, I retreated in disorder." " I know it's bad; but,... | |
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For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. 
