The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons / 1.:
Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy / 2.:
A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring / 3.:
A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution / 4.:
A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon generally proves most fatal / 5.:
The happiness of a country fire-side / 6.:
A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night or two / 7.:
An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be productive of much / 8.:
Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding / 9.:
The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances / 10.:
The family still resolve to hold up their heads / 11.:
Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities / 12.:
Mr. Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice / 13.:
Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings / 14.:
All Mr. Burchell's villainy at once detected. The folly of being over-wise / 15.:
The family use art, which is opposed with still greater / 16.:
Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation / 17.:
The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue / 18.:
The description of a person discontented with the present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties / 19.:
The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content / 20.:
The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction / 21.:
Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom / 22.:
None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable / 23.:
Fresh calamities / 24.:
No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it / 25.:
A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish / 26.:
The same subject continued / 27.:
Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution / 28.:
The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter / 29.:
Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favour / 30.:
Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest / 31.:
The Conclusion / 32.:
The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons / 1.:
Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy / 2.:
A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring / 3.:
ntroductory, Concerning the Pedigree of The Chuzzlewit Family / Chapter II:
Wherein Certain Persons Are Presented to The Reader, with Whom He May, If He Please, Become Better Acquainted
In Which Certain Other Persons Are Introduced; On The Same Terms as in the Last Chapter / Chapter III:
Accompanies Mr. Pecksniff and His Charming Daughters to the City of London; and Relates What Fell Out, Upon Their Way Thither / Chapter VIII:
Town and Todgers's / Chapter IX:
Containing Strange Matter; on Which Many Events In This History, May, for Their Good or Evil Influence, Chiefly Depend / Chapter X:
Wherein a Certain Gentleman Becomes Particular In His Attentions to a Certain Lady; and More Coming Events Than One, Cast Their Shadows Before / Chapter XI:
Will Be Seen in the Long Run, If Not in the Short One, To Concern Mr. Pinch and Others, Nearly. Mr. Pecksniff Asserts the Dignity of Outraged Virtue; And Young Martin Chuzzlewit Forms a Desperate Resolution / Chapter XII:
Showing, What Became of Martin and His Desperate Resolve, After He Left Mr. Pecksniff's House; What Persons He Encountered; What Anxieties He Suffered And What News He Heard / Chapter XIII:
In Which Martin Bids Adieu to the Lady of His Love And Honors an Obscure Individual Whose Fortune He Intends to Make, by Commending Her to His Protection / Chapter XIV:
Does Business with the House of Anthony Chuzzlewit And Son, from Which One of the Partners Retires Unexpectedly / Chapter XVIII:
The Reader is Brought into Communication With Some Professional Persons, and Sheds a Tear Over The Filial Piety of Good Mr. Jonas / Chapter XIX:
More American Experiences. Martin Takes a Partner And Makes a Purchase. Some Account of Eden, as It Appeared on Paper. Also of the British Lion. Also Of The Kind of Sympathy Professed and Entertained, By The Watertoast Association of United Sympathizers / Chapter XXI:
From Which It Will Be Seen That Martin Became a Lion On His Own Account. Together with the Reason Why / Chapter XXII:
Is in Part Professional; and Furnishes the Reader With Some Valuable Hints in Relation to The Management of a Sick Chamber / Chapter XXV:
An Unexpected Meeting, and a Promising Prospect / Chapter XXVI:
Showing That Old Friends May Not Only Appear With New Faces, but in False Colours. That People Are Prone to Bite; and That Biters May Sometimes Be Bitten / Chapter XXVII:
In Which the Travellers Move Homeward, And Encounter Some Distinguished Characters Upon the Way / Chapter XXXIV:
Arriving in England, Martin Witnesses a Ceremony From Which He Derives the Cheering Information That He Has Not Been Forgotten in His Absence / Chapter XXXV:
Tom Pinch, Going Astray, Finds That He is Not The Only Person in That Predicament. He Retaliates Upon a Fallen Foe / Chapter XXXVII:
Secret Service / Chapter XXXVIII:
The Pinches Make a New Acquaintance, and Have Fresh Occasion for Surprise and Wonder / Chapter XL:
Mr. Jonas and His Friend, Arriving at a Pleasant Understanding, Set Forth Upon an Enterprise / Chapter XLI:
Continuation of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas And His Friend / Chapter XLII:
Has an Influence on the Fortunes of Several People Mr. Pecksniff is Exhibited in the Plenitude of Power And Wields the Same with Fortitude and Magnanimity / Chapter XLIII:
Further Continuation of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas And His Friend / Chapter XLIV:
n Which Tom Pinch and His Sister Take a Little Pleasure; but Quite in a Domestic Way, and with No Ceremony About It / Chapter XLVI:
In Which Miss Pecksniff Makes Love, Mr. Jonas Makes Wrath, Mrs. Gamp Makes Tea, and Mr. Chuffey Makes Business
Conclusion of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas And His Friend / Chapter XLVII:
Bears Tidings of Martin, and of Mark, as Well As Of a Third Person Not Quite Unknown to the Reader Exhibits Filial Piety in an Ugly Aspect; and Casts ADoubtful Ray of Light Upon a Very Dark Place / Chapter XLVIII:
Bears Tidings of Martin, and of Mark, as Well As Of a Third Person Not Quite Unknown to the Reader Exhibits Filial Piety in an Ugly Aspect; and Casts A Doubtful Ray of Light Upon a Very Dark Place / Chapter Xlviii:
What John Westlock Said to Tom Pinch's Sister What Tom Pinch's Sister Said to John Westlock What Tom Pinch Said to Both of Them; and How They All Passed the Remainder of the Day / Chapter LIII:
Gives the Author Great Concern. for It is the Last In the Book / Chapter Liv: