I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, "that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education;
baina aldi berean, sortzez jatorri apalekoa nintzela baieztatu nion, guraso zintzo eta xumeengandik jaioa, ozta-ozta eman ahal izan zidatelarik hezkuntza egoki samarra;