Sentence:  To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, <WSD>patient</WSD> of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Physically able to suffer or bear.