"Poltroonery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... educate him." 'Tis inhuman to want faith in the power of education, since to meliorate is the law of Nature; and men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force. On the other hand, poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... taking advantage of the Vendean and Chouan movements, of which Burke here complains, has never been fully explained. The poltroonery of the Bourbon princes, and the factions of the emigrants, throw a certain but not a complete light on it; and though conjectural explanations are obvious enough, there is little positive ...
— Political Pamphlets • George Saintsbury |
