Original (English)

or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.--BACON. It is somewhat remarkable that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable of legacies, the doctrines of a philosophy he had acquired, perhaps too late to practise, Glendower was carrying those very doctrines, so far as his limited sphere would allow, into the rule and exercise of his life. Since the death of the bookseller, which we have before recorded, Glendower had been lef