 | Oliver MacAllester - France - 1767 - 554 pages
...Hudibraftic principles, often experienced, proved, and practifed amongft the French themfelves, That he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle jlain, Can never rife to fight again : Confians foon quitted the engagement, and... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - 1785 - 250 pages
...You, however, abound with worldly -jyifdom, though you are not learned; and think with Ralph, that " He who fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day. " But he that is in battle flain, " Will never rife to fight again." Cowardice is the concomitant of guilt.... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - Actresses - 1785 - 256 pages
...Finding I had got myfelf into a difagreeable predicament, and recollecting the well-known diftich, that . He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day ; .1 made as quick an exit as poffible, notwithAanding I wore the regalia of a Queen. Buc I was obliged... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - Actors - 1786 - 262 pages
...You, however, abound with worldly luifdom, though you are not learned', and think with Ralph, that " He who fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day. " But he that is in battle (lain, « \Yill never rife to fight again." Cowardice Cowardice is the concomitant... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - 1786 - 268 pages
...You, however, abound with worldly wifdem, though. ypu are not fyarned; and think with Ralph, that " He who fights and runs away,. " May live to fight another day. " But he that is in battle flain, « Will never rift to fight again," Cowardice Cowardice is the concomitant... | |
 | Tate Wilkinson - Actors - 1790 - 284 pages
...himlelftAraj'd vfith'fejf-fufficieiit rtei-jtTo take the field againft a Jioft of foes* For as Hudibras faysHe who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle flam, Will never rife to fight again.The firft year feeined to promife Barry and; Woodward fuccefs.... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - Civilization, Greco-Roman - 1795 - 466 pages
...when Tie ivas reproached for this difgraceful rtig'htj he replied in the following well-known ver'fe: He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. Philip after this is flain by a confpiracy, and Alexander, fucceeding to the government, paffed over... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - Civilization, Greco-Roman - 1795 - 464 pages
...and when he was reproached for this difgraceful flight, he replied in the following well-known verfe: He who fights and runs away. May live to fight another day. Philip after this is flain by a confpiracy, and Alexander, fucceeding to the government, pafled over... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...himself. Somewhat sobered by these threats, Petruchio bethought himself of t.he advice of Hudibras — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." So, heedless of the strangeness of his dress, he instantly slipt down the back stairs, and sought refuge... | |
 | Amateur sportsman - Hunting - 1804 - 630 pages
...veni, vidi, mi, to •f I came, I saw, I was overcome :" but as it is Hudibrastically admitted, that. " He who fights, and runs away, " May live to fight another day ;" so by the same parity of reasoning it may be concluded that this temporary misunderstanding did... | |
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For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 
