My late father having made the most precise inquiry that any man could possibly make amongst men of the greatest learning and judgment, of an exact method of education, was by them cautioned of this inconvenience then in use, and made to believe, that the tedious time we applied to the learning of the tongues of them who had them for nothing, was the sole cause we could not arrive to the grandeur of soul and perfection of knowledge, of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
ez diezaiola gogoan har araz Kartagoren hondamenaren data Hanibalen edota Eszipionen azturak baino gehiago, eta ez hainbat non hil zen Martzelo nola zergatik izan zen hain makurbide handia han hiltzea.