During my stay in Europe, I employ myself in reading the antient and modern historians: I compare one age with another: I have the pleasure of seeing them pass, as it were before me: and my mind is particularly engaged to those great changes which have made so great a difference between times and times, and the earth so little like itself.
nire aurrean pasarazten ditut, nolazpait esatearren, plazerez, eta nire adimena gerarazten dut aldaketa garaietan eta Lurra itxuraz aldarazi dituzten unetan.