"David, whose heart and affections were naturally of the first kind (and who indeed had experienced blessings without number) pours fourth the grateful sentiments of his enraptured soul in the sweetest modulations of pathetic oratory;--the tender mercies of the Almighty are not less to many of his creatures--but their hearts--unlike the royal disposition of the shepherd King, are cold, and untouched with the sweet ray of gratitude."
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African
Five entries in ESTC (1782, 1783, 1784). [Second edition in 1783, third in 1784.]<br>
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See <u>Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life</u> (London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/sancho1/sancho1.html">Link to text from Documenting the American South at UNC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho</u>, ed. Vincent Carretta (New York: Penguin, 1998).