text:  After having thus spoken shamefully of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the body of his work he reiterates all in a note confirming all as his not hasty but deliberate opinion having "now again gone over the narrative very carefully and found it impossible without violating the truth to make any alteration of importance as to its facts;" and though he has omitted so much which might have been given to the honour of Reynolds he is "unconscious of having omitted any enquiry likely to lead him aright