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nowiedge said he31 owe many obligations
to Mr. Thicknesse, and I know not any
man from whom I could receive a£ts of
friendship with more pleasure, and then
made this jusl; remark. I suppose, said he,
the Do6tor knew I now and then made
you a present of a drawing, and he meanly
thought, by setting us at variance, he
might come in for one himself,
The first time I met Mr. Gainsborough
after he had presented me with my cwn
unfinished pi&ure, I saw that concern
and slrame in his face, which good sense,
an upright heart, and conscious errors,
always discover, I did not lament the loss
of his finifliing strokes to my Portrait, but
I grieved that it had ever been began; he
desired I would not iet any other painter
touch
nowiedge said he31 owe many obligations
to Mr. Thicknesse, and I know not any
man from whom I could receive a£ts of
friendship with more pleasure, and then
made this jusl; remark. I suppose, said he,
the Do6tor knew I now and then made
you a present of a drawing, and he meanly
thought, by setting us at variance, he
might come in for one himself,
The first time I met Mr. Gainsborough
after he had presented me with my cwn
unfinished pi&ure, I saw that concern
and slrame in his face, which good sense,
an upright heart, and conscious errors,
always discover, I did not lament the loss
of his finifliing strokes to my Portrait, but
I grieved that it had ever been began; he
desired I would not iet any other painter
touch