Changelings
The substitution of a little old mannikin of the elf race, for a young child. There are many tales representative of this belief in Scotland . The changeling grows up peevish and misshapen, always crying, and gives many proofs of its origin to those versed in such matters. There are many ways of getting rid of him, such as sticking a knife into him, making him sit on a gridiron with a fire below, dropping him into a river, etc., - which one would Charnock imagine would prove fairly successful The changeling sometimes gives himself away by unthinking reference to his age.
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Channing
WILLIAM ELLERY, an American poet; nephew of William E. Channing , the elder; born in Boston, Mass., June Ju 10, 1818. He is author of "Poems" (1843-1847); "The Woodman" (1849); "Near Home" (1858); "The Wanderer" (1872); " Conversations in Rome" (1847); and " Thoreau" (1873). He died in 1901.
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Channing
WILLIAM HENRY, an American Unitarian clergyman and biographer; nephew of W. E. Channing, the elder; born in Boston, May 25, 1810. Settling in England, he succeeded James Martineau as pastor at Liverpool. His daughter married Sir Edwin Arnold. His principal work was "Memoir of William Ellery Channing" (3 vols., 1848). He died in London, Dec. 23, 1884.
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Channing
WILLIAM ELLERY, Academy. He soon came to be regarded an American preacher and writer, born in Newport, R. I., April 7, 1780. He studied at Harvard College, became a decided Unitarian , and propagated Unitarian tenets with great zeal and success. His first appointment as a pastor was in 1803, when he obtained the charge of a congregation in Boston, and ere long he became known as one of the most popular preachers of America. His reputation was still further increased by the publication of writings, chiefly sermons, reviews, etc., on popular subjects. He died in Bennington , Vt., Oct. 2, 1842.
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Channing, William Ellery
William Ellery (1780-1842), an American clergyman. He was a native of Newport, Rhode Island , and a graduate of Harvard College. He studied medicine, taught in Virginia, took up theology, and entered upon his first charge at Medford, Massachusetts. He preached his first sermon from the text, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee." In 1803 he had a call to Boston. In 1819 he preached a famous sermon in which he announced two articles of belief. He declared the Bible to be "a book written for men, in the language of men, and its meaning to be sought in the same manner as that of other books." He also declared his belief that Christ was a great moral teacher; no more, no less. This made him the recognized leader of the Unitarian movement in New England , a position which he held until his death. He was also an earnest advocate of the abolition of slavery, supporting the views of Garrison. He was a man of wide reading and a fine writer. His life was simple and fearless. He was a man of unaffected piety. He was respected thoroughly, even by those who could not accept his views. Coleridge said of Channing, "He has the love of wisdom, and the wisdom of love." A bronze statue of Channing stands in the public garden in Boston, opposite the church of which he was long a pastor. See Unitarians
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Channing, William Henry
William Henry (1810-1884), an American clergyman. He was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard in 1829, entered the Unitarian ministry, preaching with much success in several American cities. He was a fine extemporaneous speaker. Later he settled in England as pastor of Hope Street Chapel in Liverpool. He was for two years chaplain of the Senate at Washington, but after the Civil War resided continuously in England. He published Memoirs of Dr. William Ellery Channing, Life and Writings of James H. Perkins, and, in connection with Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Freeman Clarke, Memoirs of Madame Ossoli. To live content with small means--to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion--to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich--to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly--to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart--to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.--William Henry Channing.
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Chanson de Roland
shon-son' de rolon', a French epic poem of medieval times. This poem seems, like other folk-epics, to be a collection or composite of popular songs. The Chanson de Gest (shon-son' de zhest), literally song of heroic deeds, was a special form of narrative poem popular in France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, corresponding to the ballads of old England. These songs were sung or recited by trouveres or minstrels. The Chanson de Roland is a cycle of these songs celebrating the heroic exploits of Charlemagne, and giving especially the story of Roland's death at Roncesvalles in 778, and the revenge taken by Charlemagne upon the Saracens. The French poem contains over 4,000 lines. This song of Roland, as the epic is commonly called, was the most popular heroic song of the Middle Ages . When on his way to conquer England William the Conqueror had parts of it sung at the head of his troops for the inspiration of his soldiers. The gathering together of this cycle of songs is accredited to Turoldus, a Norman trouvere of the eleventh century. Many of the songs date probably from a time little later than the event of Roland's death. See Roland ; Epic ; Trouvere; Ballad
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Chantibun
or CHANTABON, an important ant commercial port of Siam, near the mouth of the Chantibun river, in the Gulf of Siam. Pop. about 30,000.
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Chantilly
(shän-te-ye'), a town of France in the department of the Oise, 25 miles N. N. E. of Paris, celebrated for a variety of lace made here and in the neighborhood; for the splendid château, u, built by the great Condé, but leveled by the mob at the revolution; and also for another palace built by the Duc d'Aumale after the estate came into his possession in 1850, which, along with the fine domain, was presented by the duke to the French Institute in 1887. It is a horse-racing center . Pop. about 7,500.
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