This has ever been my settled opinion; but I forbore to take a part in your debates, that I might not be thought bigoted either to antiquity, or to my own way of thinking. I had another reason for my conduct.
Aldi berean pentsatzen nuen, neure kontratasun etengabez, ez nuela suntsitu behar hemen izan nezakeen autoritatea, osorik iraun zezan, errepublikak inoiz nire aholkurik behar bazuen.