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Updated: May 20, 2025
Clubs, cafés, and entertainments abound and flourish. Its suburbs and nearby towns afford all the allurements the modern city-man seeks in country life. The rural charms of Marianao are unsurpassed in any land. Ornately simple architecture marks the columned houses of its best street.
I guess there were other reasons than want of progress for the Wickershams not paying dividends." A few days later Norman informed Keith that the money was nearly all subscribed; but Keith did not know until afterwards how warmly he had indorsed him. "You said something about sheep the other day; well, a sheep is a solitary and unsocial animal to a city-man with money to invest.
There is a pressure upon both sides of him in the house; and when he plunges into business, there is a far greater pressure there, in the shape of sharp competition, which brings him into constant collision with other men, and mayhap drives him or compels him to drive his weaker rival to the wall. The city-man is likely to cover himself with a mantle of reserve and dissimulation.
It is rare to find a farmer or peasant whose enthusiasm for the beauty in Nature finds outward expression to compare with that of the city-man who comes out for a Sunday in the country, but Thoreau is that rare country-man and Debussy the city-man with his weekend flights into country-aesthetics. We would be inclined to say that Thoreau leaned towards substance and Debussy towards manner.
Palmer fully believed, to trespass in person on his land! Add to all this, that here Mr. Peregrine Palmer was in a place whose remoteness lightened the pressure of conventional restraints, while its wildness tended to rouse all the old savage in him its very look suggesting to the city-man its fitness for an unlawful deed for a lawful end.
Palmer fully believed, to trespass in person on his land! Add to all this, that here Mr. Peregrine Palmer was in a place whose remoteness lightened the pressure of conventional restraints, while its wildness tended to rouse all the old savage in him its very look suggesting to the city-man its fitness for an unlawful deed for a lawful end.
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