Note 80 — TABLE TALK; OR, ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS (continued 9)
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Sir Joshua, who was not a vain man, purchased a tawdry sheriff’s carriage, soon after he took his house in Leicester-fields, and desired his sister to ride about in it, in order that people might ask, ‘Whose it was?’ and the answer would be, ‘It belongs to the great painter!’