...on the account given of Rahu, we shall not be surprised that Kartikeya thought with Hudibras, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Of this monster, whose mother so happily interposed, we are told in the third volume of the Asiatic...

...promised effect soon exposed the quackery, and the credit of the Doctor received a powerful shock. But, " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The hue and cry having wholly subsided, gave him an opportunity of breaking new ground, and coming...

...hope, will ' teach you better manners for the future.' Calling to mind the dignified precept, that ' He, who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day;' I made as safe a retreat as Xenophon did out of Asia ; and as quick an one as our neighbours are said...

...and many other occasions, one party constantly illustrated the truth of the Hudibrastic lines, that He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; whilst the other party as constantly forgot, that only Those who are in battle slain Will not return...

...dear Louisa, which course 1 shall pursue." " The better part of valour is discretion, certainly, and he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day, as I have heard say, — dear Charles. But— I have once already endeavoured to "prove all better...

...two. The remaining animal, finding himself the sole object of attack, adopted Hudibras's notion of " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" so, putting his tail between his legs, he made off with all possible speed. The hyena having found...

...field, and I very plainly saw with how much truth might in some cases be applied the old saying, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" for the pursuers had now become the pursued, and were falling back upon our new position. Partaking...

...of other captains, and English gentlemen bearing coats of arms. Conformably to the old proverb, of " He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," did those act who fled and left their companions to bear the brunt of * Trrvicres,— a market-town...

...but in the published poems of Sir John Mennes, a clerk in the Admiralty, in the time of Charles II. " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," &c. This may be an instance of accidental resemblance in Mennes and Butler: such petty larceny as has...

...people will bear ? Miserable cowards, who boast that " discretion is the better part of valor," " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; " we advise you to attempt nothing at all. If you have not confidence enough in the people to trust...