It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.
Heldua zen orai guri erauki zaizkun bizi urtheen erdira bano gehiagorano eta bizkitartean iragana zen mila goitibeheiti gaindi, eta, izanik burhaso zuhurrenganik sortua eta bera ere aitzinikuspen harrigarriko gizona, behartu zuen bihotza koleratzearen abiadura oro bridatzera, eta, prekauzionerik zalhuienaz bere bulhar barnean sufrikariozko bethetasun hura bizkortzera zeini izpiritu apalak baitaude histaz, juzgu erraxeko erhoek gutiesten baitute eta guziek kausitzen baitute onhargarri, ordea onhargarri soilik.