and I look upon it as a wonderful and exemplary thing that it yet continues a virgin from blood and plunder during so long a storm, and so many neighbouring revolutions and tumults. For to confess the truth, it had been possible enough for a man of my complexion to have shaken hands with any one constant and continued form whatever;
eta maisu lan eredugarritzat jotzen dut, oraindik, hain erauntsi luze, hainbat aldaketa eta inarrosaldi hurbilen azpian, odolaren isurtzeari eta ebasteari buruz oraindik birjina egon dadin. Zeren, egiaren esateko, ahalezkoa baitzen nire baldintzako gizon batentzat molde iraunkor eta jarraiki bati itzurtzea, zernahi bazen ere;