MEMOIR OF THE LATE DR. HENRY. 135 
in habits of close intercourse with him, might 
not perhaps have been always rightly interpre- 
ted. Thus there was occasionally a reserve of 
manner that might be regarded as implying 
-eoldness of feeling, but which arose solely out 
of the languor produced by an almost constant 
state of bodily indisposition, and increased by 
those habits of studious application from which 
he could never be induced to relax. Though 
not liable to acute maladies or to such as seemed 
to endanger life, he had to struggle with what 
is perhaps less supportable, an habitual infirmity 
of health and feelings of oppression arising from 
the slow and imperfect action of the digestive 
functions. These distempered sensations he 
was accustomed to lament, mainly as abridging 
his season for intellectual labour, and especially 
as disqualifying him for original thought and 
composition. 
In the general intercourse of society, Dr. 
Henry was distinguished by a polished courtesy, 
by an intuitive propriety, and by a considerate 
forethought and respect for the feelings and 
opinions of others;—qualities issuing out of the 
same highly-toned sensibility, that guided his 
tastes in letters, and that softened and elevated 
his whole moral frame and bearing. His com- 
