| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...fight an other dale. From the Musarum Delicice, compiled by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. 1640. He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.* RICHARD GRAFTON. Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande. 1570. 8vo. " A rule to knowe how many dayes... | |
| Edward Thomson - Education - 1856 - 426 pages
...body knows it. Do not be troubled: — calm yourself with the consolation of the valorous Falstaff — "He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Keep in a good humor with the world. Mankind are not all rascals, though an honest man wants bread.... | |
| John McNamara - Kansas - 1856 - 252 pages
...had work before it. Everything was to be done over again. It had to set a tune for these lines : " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." " The Platte Argus" generated, and shot its lightning, and rolled its thunder weekly against the cowards... | |
| John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 444 pages
...20. " for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras, are really much older. They are to be found in a book published... | |
| Edward Thomson - Christian biography - 1857 - 408 pages
...bloodless battle, drove Mesmer from the field, who, however, being young, acted on the principle, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." He went on curing, and what he lost in credit he made up in noise. But father Hehl followed so close... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...will serve only to show its unsoundness. HE THAT FIGHTS AND BUNS AWAY. The often-quoted lines — For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras (book iii. canto iii. verse 243), is as follows : —... | |
| Daniel Ricketson - Antislavery movements - 1858 - 426 pages
...was a North Briton or Scotchman, and undoubtedly as near as possible adopted the maxim of Hudibras, He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day; for he kept most of the time during the action in the cabin, occasionally showing his head from the... | |
| John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...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, opened... | |
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