I had been well instructed by father and mother; neither had they been wanting to me in their early endeavours to infuse a religious awe of God into my mind, a sense of my duty, and what the nature and end of my being required of me.
Mis padres me habían educado bien; ambos me habían inculcado, desde temprana edad, el respeto religioso hacia Dios, el sentido del deber y de aquello que la naturaleza y mi condición en la vida exigían de mí.