 | Robert Moffat - 1842 - 686 pages
...white as milk ; milk is not white to-day, my heart is white. I cease not to • The name of his father. wonder at the love of a stranger. You never saw me...to the two ambassadors who were sitting at my feet, saving, " These are great men ; 'Umbate is my right hand. When I sent them from my presence to see... | |
 | 1842 - 418 pages
...because you have been my father. You have made my heart as white as milk ; milk is not white to-day, but my heart is white. I cease not to wonder at the love...me when I was naked ; you carried me in your bosom your arm shielded me from my enemies." Mr. Moffat answered that he did not know how he had done him... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1846 - 186 pages
...wonder at the love of a stranger. You never saw me before, but you love me more than my own people. Yon fed me when I was hungry ; you clothed me when I was...arm with his, added, " that arm shielded me from my enemus." On my replying, I was unconscious of having done him any such services, he instantly pointed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 pages
...to the sombre-clad Christian, and calling him by his father's name " Machobane," proceeded : — " You have made my heart as white as milk. Milk is not...when I was naked ; you carried me in your bosom, and your arm shielded me from my enemies." The follower of Jesus, haunted it may be by this echo of some... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1875 - 338 pages
...in his own country. He afterwards said to him, " My father, you have made my heart as white as milk. I cease not to wonder at the love of a stranger. You...I was naked ; you carried me in your bosom ; and," — taking Moffat's right arm in his hand, — " that arm shielded me from my enemies. You did it to... | |
 | 1883 - 794 pages
...Moffat, is a case in point. "Father," said the great chief, "you have made my heart white as milk! I cease not to wonder at the love of a stranger; you...when I was naked, you carried me in your bosom, and your arm shielded me from my enemies." His allusion was to Dr. Moffat's treatment of his ambassadors.... | |
 | Earnest lives - 1881 - 246 pages
...Placing his left hand on his shoulder, and his right on his breast, he addressed him thus : ' Machobane, I call you such because you have been my father. You...when I was naked ; you carried me in your bosom ; and that arm (raising his right arm) shielded me from my enemies.' Moffat replied that he was not aware... | |
 | Emily Durrant - 1883 - 304 pages
...he put his hand on his shoulder and exclaimed : ' Father, you have made my heart as white as milk. I cease not to wonder at the love of a stranger. You...when I was naked, you carried me in your bosom, and your arm shielded me from my enemies.' When Moffat replied that he was by no means aware of having... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - 1884 - 158 pages
...early interview thus expressed his gratitude for the kindness shown to his ambassadors : ' Machobane, I call you such because you have been my father. You...naked; you carried me in your bosom;' and, raising the right arm of the missionary, he added, ' That arm shielded me from my enemies.' When Mr. Moffat... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1885 - 376 pages
...in his own country. He afterwards said to him, " My father, you have made my heart as white as milk. I cease not to wonder at the love of a stranger. You...hungry; you clothed me when I was naked; you carried ine in your bosom ; and,"—taking Moffat's right arm in his hand,—"that arm shielded me from my... | |
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I call you such because you have been my father. You have made my heart as white as milk ; milk is not white to-day, my heart is white. I cease not to wonder at the love of a stranger. You never saw me before, but you love me more than my own people.... 
