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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. "
Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for ... - Page 254
by Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1902 - 545 pages
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St. George; Or, The Canadian League, Volume 2

William Charles McKinnon - American fiction - 1852 - 336 pages
...Oh, you know," remarked Rodolphe, with a sneer, " that ' discretion is the best part of valor,' and ' he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' It is an ugly thing to see the Judge put on the black cap, and pronounce the awful words, 'the sentence...
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The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 23-24

Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...the distance, fled the field— doubtless he remembered the advice wrongly attributed to " Hudibras," that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Uis great object was to find out Nathalie, and acquaint her with the failure of his project. He knew...
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Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ...

George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...arbitrator was reduced to confess, " that a man might be ignorant of a fact without being a foot." " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and tight again." Jortin observes, the humourous expression...
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Table Traits: With Something on Them

Dr. Doran (John) - Diet - 1854 - 564 pages
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion— " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another. day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do— " For he...
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Yankee-notions, Volume 3

American wit and humor, Pictorial - 1854 - 398 pages
...himself. Somewhat sobered by these threats, Pctruchio bethought himself of the 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...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 3

1854 - 542 pages
...superciliously through her glass. ' Well, Maurice,' said the doctor, ' returned from the wars, I see — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Do you remember the old couplet of Pindar's V ' That is not Peter Pindar's, sir; you are quoting from...
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The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere ..., Volume 1

United States Naval Astronomical Expedition, 1849-1852, James Melville Gilliss - Argentina - 1855 - 616 pages
...taken prisoners; and the remainder, perhaps four hundred and fifty, adopting the belief of Falstaff, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," "made tracks" for the city. This was quietly surrendered next day, after exchanging one or two notes,...
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Willis's Current notes

Willis's Current notes - 1855 - 114 pages
...Lord Chesterfield, are thus, in a volume entitled, " The Pleasing Companion, or Guide to Fame." — " 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." It is also said they are to be found...
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A Clerical Liberationist

Robert M'Clure Woods - Church and state - 1855 - 558 pages
...Lord Chesterfield, arc thus, in a volume entitled, " The Pleasing Companion, or Guide to Fame."— " 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." It is also said they are to be found...
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Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 3

India - 1856 - 876 pages
...Hudibras is the only true philosophy. There is no Chinese soldier who has it not already asaprinciple— " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day;" and who does not believe that, under existing circumstances, this is the only course open to a rational...
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