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call , and adequate to every emergency . His learning was deep and multifarious . He was admirably skilled in logic , ethics , metaphyMcs , and scholastic theology . Duns Scotus ,
Thomas iiquinas , and Burgersdicius , were authors with whom he was intimately convi rsant . He had studied the healing < u * t with particular . attention , and added to a soartd theoretic knowledge of it , some degree bf practice . His skill in this art he rendered
subservient to his philanthropy ; tor he gratuitously attended the valetudinarian poor wherever he resided , and favoured them with medical advice , as well as pecuniary assistance . He had a competent
knowledge of geometry , astronomy , and every branch of natural and experimental philosophy . He was well acquainted with the civil and canon laws , and the law of nature ^ and nations . In classical
learning and the belles lettres he was by no means deficient . He was master of the Greek and Latin tongues , as well as of several modern languages . He affected riot elegance , cither in his Latin or English style ; but was happy in
a manly , perspicuous , and forci - ble diction , which he preferred to the empty flow of harmonious periods . He was versed ^ 'in history * grammar , and rhetoric . In
politics , be was a firm Tory , and gre % tj y disapproved the general conduct of the Whig party , Tn 'jthis respect bft resembled Jfiiis friepd Pr ; JMm * 1 K '
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Hjs skill in physiognomy re mains to be mentioned ^ he spefke of the certainty of this science with all the confidence of a Lavater .
He constantly maintained that by tht mere inbpection of the countenance of any individual in the world , he was able , without having either bet n or heard of the person before , to give a decisive
opinion of his disposition and character . Though I am inclined to consider this as an extravagant boast , I am ready to allow that the characters ot many persons
may be discovered by such inspection , and that Mr . Henderson frequently succeeded in a wonderful manner in his attempts of this kind .
He pretended to a knowledge of the occult sciences of magic and astrology . Whether this was , or was not , a mere pretence , I leave
to the judgment of the enlightened reader . Suffice it to remark , that Jiis library was well stored withthe magical and astrological books o ( the last century .
I never Hnew any one whose , company was so universall y courtT ed as that of Mr . Henderson . Hi $ talents of conversation were of so
attractive a nature , so variable and multiform , that ' . he wa ? a companion equally acceptable to r the philosopher arid the man of the world , to the grave and th ^ gay , the learned and the illiterate , the yoiibg aricl the pli of botk " sexes .
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% g < 2 Anecdotes of Mr . Henderson .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/12/
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