but if not like rowers who so advance backward, yet so, at the same time, that I am less obliged to my resolution than to my good fortune, that I was not wholly embarked in it. For there are ways less displeasing to my taste, and more suitable to my ability, by which, if she had formerly called me to the public service, and my own advancement towards the world's opinion, I know I should, in spite of all my own arguments to the contrary, have pursued them.
ez arraunlariak bezala, horrela atzeraka aurreratzen direnak, baina hala ere hain osoki non, ontziratu ez naizenez, neure zori onari baino gutiago zor baitiot neure erabakiari. Zeren baitira nire gustuari eta helmenari etsai gutiago zaizkien bideak, haietan barrena zoriak deitu izan banindu zerbitzu publikora eta neure aitzinamendura munduko sinesmen aldera, baitakit neure hitzaldien arrazoiaren gainetik iraganen nintzatekeela hari jarraikitzeko.