No sovereign ever lived in former ages so absolute or so powerful as to undertake to administer by his own agency, and without the assistance of intermediate powers, all the parts of a great empire:
Iragan mendeetan sekula ez da ikusi hain subirano absolutu eta ahaltsurik aginterri handi baten zati guztiak, bere kabuz eta bigarren mailako botereen laguntzarik gabe, administratzeari ekin dionik;