A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Edward Payson Roe
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"This book contains the elements of perfect work, clearness and brilliancy of style, conciseness and beauty of expression, a good plot, an entertaining story, and a most excellent moral." — Christian Intelligencer.
"The whole tone of the work is manly and healthful. It is thoroughly noble in all its teachings and tendencies." — Utica Herald.
"It is a book which those who begin will be pretty sure to finish, deriving from it a new impulse to the truest knighthood." — Harper's Magazine.
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Book Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1. Bad Training For A Knight
- 2. Both Apologize
- 3. Chained To An Iceberg
- 4. Immature
- 5. Passion’s Clamor
- 6. “Gloomy Grandeur”
- 7. Birds Of Prey
- 8. Their Victim
- 9. Pat And The Press
- 10. Returning Consciousness
- 11. Haldane Is Arrested
- 12. A Memorable Meeting
- 13. Our Knight In Jail
- 14. Mr. Arnot’s System Works Badly
- 15. Haldane’s Resolve
- 16. The Impulses Of Wounded Pride
- 17. At Odds With The World
- 18. The World’s Verdict—Our Knight A Criminal
- 19. The World’s Best Offer—A Prison
- 20. Maiden And Wood-Sawyer
- 21. Magnanimous Mr. Shrumpf
- 22. A Man Who Hated Himself
- 23. Mr. Growther Becomes Gigantic
- 24. How Public Opinion Is Often Made
- 25. A Paper Poniard
- 26. A Sorry Knight
- 27. God Sent His Angel
- 28. Facing The Consequences
- 29. How Evil Isolates
- 30. Ideal Knighthood
- 31. The Low Starting-point
- 32. A Sacred Refrigerator
- 33. A Doubtful Battle In Prospect
- 34. A Foothold
- 35. “That Sermon Was A Bombshell”
- 36. Mr. Growther Feeds An Ancient Grudge
- 37. Hoping For A Miracle
- 38. The Miracle Takes Place
- 39. Votaries Of The World
- 40. Human Nature
- 41. Mrs. Arnot’s Creed
- 42. The Lever That Moves The World
- 43. Mr. Growther “Stumped”
- 44. Growth
- 45. Laura Romeyn
- 46. Misjudged
- 47. Laura Chooses Her Knight
- 48. Mrs. Arnot’s Knight
- 49. A Knightly Deed
- 50. Dreaded Death!”
- 51. “O Priceless Life!”
- 52. A Man Versus A Connoisseur
- 53. Exit Of Laura’s First Knight
- 54. Another Knight Appears
- Copyright Information
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- Lutheran Library edition first published: 2019-09-30
- Updated: 2019-10-05 (v5)
- Copyright: CC BY 4.0