Chapter Chronicles to Chuzzlewit of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Chrysostom, a famous scholar, who died for love of Marcella, “rich William’s daughter.”

Unrivalled in learning and wit, he was sincere in disposition, generous and magnificent without ostentation, prudent and sedate without affectation, modest and complaisant without meanness. In a word, one of the foremost in goodness of heart, and second to none in misfortunes.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I.ii.5 (1605).

N.B.—The saint (317–407) was called Chrysostom, Golden-mouth, for his great eloquence. His name was John. (Greek, chrusos, “gold;” stôma, “mouth.”)

Chucks, the boatswain under captain Savage.—Marryat: Peter Simple (1833).

Chuffey, Anthony Chuzzlewit’s old clerk,—almost in his dotage, but master and man love each other with sincerest affection.

Chuffey fell back into a dark corner on one side of the fire-place, where he always spent his evenings, and was neither seen nor heard…save once, when a cup of tea was given him, in which he was seen to soak his bread mechanically…He remained, as it were, frozen up, if any term expressive of such a vigorous process can be applied to him.—Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, xi. (1843).

Chunée (A la), very huge and bulky. Chunée was the largest elephant ever brought to England. Henry Harris, manager of Covent Garden, bought it for £900 to appear in the pantomime of Harlequin Padmenaba, in 1810. It was subsequently sold to Cross, the proprietor of Exeter ’Change. Chunée at length became mad, and was shot by a detachment of the Guards, receiving 152 wounds. The skeleton is preserved in the museum of the College of Surgeons. It is 12 feet 4 inches high.

Church. I go to church to hear God praised, not the king. This was the wise but severe rebuke of George III. to Dr. Wilson, of St. Margaret’s Church, London.

Church built by Voltaire. Voltaire the atheist built at Ferney a Christian church, and had this inscription affixed to it, “Deo erexit Voltaire.” Campbell, in the life of Cowper (vol. vii. 358), says “he knows not to whom Cowper alludes in these lines”—

Nor his who for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and laughed His Word to scorn.
   —Cowper: Retirement (1782).

Church-of-Englandism. This word was the coinage of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832).

Churchill (Ethel), a novel by L. E. L. (Letitia E. Landon), 1837. Walpole and other contemporaries of George I. are introduced.

Chuzzlewit (Anthony), cousin of Martin Chuzzlewit the grandfather. Anthony is an avaricious old hunks, proud of having brought up his son Jonas to be as mean and grasping as himself. His two redeeming points are his affection for his old servant Chuffey, and his forgiveness of Jonas after his attempt to poison him.

The old-established firm of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son, Manchester warehousemen…had its place of business in a very narrow street somewhere behind the Post-Office.…A dim, dirty, smoky, tumble-down, rotten old house it was…but here the firm…transacted their business…and neither the young man nor the old one had any other residence.—Chap. xi.

Fonas Chuzzlewit, son of Anthony, of the “firm of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son, Manchester warehousemen.” A consummate villain of mean brutality and small tyranny. He attempts to poison his old father, and murders Montague Tigg, who knows his secret. Jonas marries Mercy Pecksniff, his cousin, and leads her a life of utter misery. His education had been conducted on moneygrubbing principles; the first word