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In later life his works increasingly took on overtly nationalistic subjects, celebrating the exploits of
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to celebrate the end of his ten-year colonelcy of the regiment in
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stills and women grinding corn. These culminated in the 1848 sequel to the
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A Woman of Design, a Man of Passion: The Pioneering McIans
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wrote that he "was generally voted an intolerable bore".
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