HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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NAPOLEON AXD FREEDOM,
Bonaparte, who might have become
the W^ashington of Europe, and only became
its Napoleon, never felt at ease
in his imperial mantle of purple; the
spectre of freedom haunted him like the
ghost of a murdered mother; her voice
was always ringing in his ears ; at night
she drove him in terror from his couch
and from the embraces of the espoused
legitimacy : then might he be seen stalking
through the empty, re-sounding
chambers of the Tuileries, raging and
storming, and when in the morning,
pale and exhausted, he took his place
in the Council of State, he would complain
of ideology, and always of ideology,
and of most dangerous ideology,
and Corvisart would shake his head.
ENGLISH TRAITS,
In discussing politics, the stupidest
Englishman will always contrive to say
something rational; but whenever the
conversation turns upon religion, the
most intelligent Englishman will exhibit
nothing but stupidity.