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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life

Name: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life
Author: Sancho, Ignatius

Sancho, Ignatius

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might then disapprove--unless God’s grace should as ably support him
through the quick-sands--rocks--and shoals of life--as it has happily
the honest being I am now writing to.--God give you health!--your own
conduct will secure peace--your friends bread.--As to honors, leave it
with titles--to knaves--and be content with that of an honest man,

  “the noblest work of God.”

Shave--shave--shave.

  Farewell, yours sincerely,

  I. SANCHO.




LETTER XLVII.

TO MISS C----.


  August 15, 1777.

I WAITED, in hopes that time or chance might furnish me with
something to fill a sheet, with better than the praises of an old
man.--What has youth and beauty to do with the squabbling contentions
of mad ambition?--Could I new-model Nature--your sex should rule
supreme:--there should be no other ambition but that of pleasing the
ladies--no other welfare but the contention of obsequious lovers--nor
any glory but the bliss of being approved by the Fair.--Now, confess
that this epistle opens very gallant, and allow this to be a decent
return to one of the best and most sensible letters that L---- Wells
has produced this century past.--I much wish for the pleasing hopes
raised by your obliging letter--that my good friend’s health is
restored so fully, that she has by this time forgot what the pains
in the stomach mean,--that she has sent all her complaints to the
lake of Lethe--and is thinking soon to enliven our part our world,
enriched with health--spirits--and a certain bewitching benignity of
countenance--which cries out--‘Dislike me if you can!’--I want to
know what conquests you have made--what savages converted--whom you
have smiled into felicity, or killed by rejection;--and how the noble
Master of Ceremonies acquits himself, John S---- Esq; I mean.--I hear
my friend R---- will be in town this week, to my great comfort;--for,
upon my conscience, excepting my family, the town to me is quite
empty.--Mrs. R---- is gone to Bury--and the good man is toiling a
lonely and forlorne object.--Mrs. Sancho joins in every good and
grateful wish for your amiable friend, with, dear Miss C----, your
obliged friend and humble servant,

  I. SANCHO.




LETTER XLVIII.

TO MR. M----.


  August 25, 1777.

  +Jack-asses.+

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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life

Sancho, Ignatius

might then disapprove--unless God’s grace should as ably support him
through the quick-sands--rocks--and shoals of life--as it has happily
the honest being I am now writing to.--God give you health!--your own
conduct will secure peace--your friends bread.--As to honors, leave it
with titles--to knaves--and be content with that of an honest man,

  “the noblest work of God.”

Shave--shave--shave.

  Farewell, yours sincerely,

  I. SANCHO.




LETTER XLVII.

TO MISS C----.


  August 15, 1777.

I WAITED, in hopes that time or chance might furnish me with
something to fill a sheet, with better than the praises of an old
man.--What has youth and beauty to do with the squabbling contentions
of mad ambition?--Could I new-model Nature--your sex should rule
supreme:--there should be no other ambition but that of pleasing the
ladies--no other welfare but the contention of obsequious lovers--nor
any glory but the bliss of being approved by the Fair.--Now, confess
that this epistle opens very gallant, and allow this to be a decent
return to one of the best and most sensible letters that L---- Wells
has produced this century past.--I much wish for the pleasing hopes
raised by your obliging letter--that my good friend’s health is
restored so fully, that she has by this time forgot what the pains
in the stomach mean,--that she has sent all her complaints to the
lake of Lethe--and is thinking soon to enliven our part our world,
enriched with health--spirits--and a certain bewitching benignity of
countenance--which cries out--‘Dislike me if you can!’--I want to
know what conquests you have made--what savages converted--whom you
have smiled into felicity, or killed by rejection;--and how the noble
Master of Ceremonies acquits himself, John S---- Esq; I mean.--I hear
my friend R---- will be in town this week, to my great comfort;--for,
upon my conscience, excepting my family, the town to me is quite
empty.--Mrs. R---- is gone to Bury--and the good man is toiling a
lonely and forlorne object.--Mrs. Sancho joins in every good and
grateful wish for your amiable friend, with, dear Miss C----, your
obliged friend and humble servant,

  I. SANCHO.




LETTER XLVIII.

TO MR. M----.


  August 25, 1777.

  +Jack-asses.+

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life

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