It was but a short time after his settling at St. Augustine's College,
that one of the students took him to see Canterbury Cathedral. The
reverent regard with which he had been taught to look upon a church,
as a place where prayer was made to God, manifested itself in his
inquiry, when entering the nave, "Whether he might cough there?" This
tendency to cough, arising from an ailment, the seeds of which had
probably been sown long before, was often observable; and he was very
susceptible of cold.