Would it not be an insufferable thing for a learned professor, and that which his scarlet would blush at, to have his authority of forty years standing, wrought out of hard rock, Greek and Latin, with no small expense of time and candle, and confirmed by general tradition and a reverend beard, in an instant overturned by an upstart novelist?
Jasan ezinezko gertatuko litzaioke irakasle prestu bati ikasle etorri berriak instant batean bere autoritatea lurjota utziko balio bere hipotesiak errefusatuz; hogeita hamar, berrogei urtez arrakastari eutsi dion autoritatea esan nahi dut, neke handiz lortutakoa, greko eta latinezko putzu sakonaren gainean eraikia, tradizio orokorrak eta bizar beneragarriak sendotua.