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See also:GEORGE See also:CATLIN (1796-1872) , See also:American ethnologist, was See also:born at . Wilkes-See also:Barre, See also:Pennsylvania, in 1796 . He was educated as a lawyer and practised in See also:Philadelphia for two years; but See also:art was his favourite pursuit, and forsaking the See also:law he established himself at New See also:York as a portrait painter . In 1832, realizing that the American See also:Indians were dying out, he resolved to See also:rescue their types and customs from oblivion . With this See also:object he spent many years among the Indians in See also:North and See also:South See also:America . He lived with them, acquired their See also:languages, and studied very thoroughly their habits, customs and mode of See also:life, making copious notes and many studies for paintings . In 1840 he came to See also:Europe with his collection of paintings, most of which are now in the See also:National Museum, See also:Washington, as the See also:Catlin See also:Gallery; and in the following See also:year he published the See also:Manners, Customs and See also:Condition of the North American Indians in two volumes, illustrated with 300 engravings . This was followed in 1844 by The North American See also:Portfolio, containing 25 plates of See also:hunting scenes and amusements in the Rocky Mountains and the prairies of America, and in 1848 by Eight Years' Travels and See also:Residence in Europe . In 1861 he published a curious little See also:volume, in " manugraph," entitled The Breath of Life, on the See also:advantage of keeping one's mouth habitually closed, especially during See also:sleep; and in 1868, Last Rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the See also:Andes . He died in See also:Jersey See also:City, New Jersey, on the 22nd of See also:December 1872 . enemy of the See also:oligarchy, or as a disinterested See also:champion of the provincials . It is held by some historians that there was at the See also:time on the See also:part of many of the See also:Roman nobles a determination to raise themselves to See also:power, despite the opposition of the See also:senate; others with greater See also:probability maintain that See also:Catiline's object was simply the cancelling of the huge debts which he and his See also:friends had accumulated .
Catiline, by his bravery, his military talents, his vigorous See also:resolution, and his wonderful power over men, was eminently qualified as a revolutionary See also:leader
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See also:Crebillon, and of the See also:Rome sauvee of See also:Voltaire
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See also: " See also:Sergius Catilina ") ; J . L . See also:Strachan See also:Davidson, Cicero 1894), ch . V.; Warde See also:Fowler's See also:Caesar (1892) ; see also art . |
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