Lynn Thompson
speaker
669 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I never knew a man or woman of extreme fashion that knew much.
How belittling the study of the cut of the coat?
Or the tie of a cravat.
Or the wrinkle in a shoe.
Or the colour of a ribbon.
How they are worried if something gets untied or hangs awry, or is not nicely adjusted?
With a mind capable of measuring the height and depth of great subjects, able to unravel mysteries, to walk through the universe, to soar up into the infinity of God's attributes, hovering perpetually over a new style of amantilla
I have known men reckless as to their character, and regardless of interests momentous and eternal
Exasperated by the shape of a vest button.
What is the matter with that woman?
Wrought up into the agony of despair.
Oh, her muff is out of fashion.
Worse than all, this folly is not satisfied until it has extirpated every moral sentiment.
and blasted the soul.
A wardrobe is the rock upon which many a soul has been riven.
The excitement of a luxurious life has been the vortex that has swallowed up more souls than the maelstrom of Norway ever devoured ships.
What room for elevating themes in a heart filled with the trivial and unreal?
Who can wonder that in his haste for sun gilded baubles and winged thistledown, men should tumble into ruin?
The travellers to destruction are not all clothed in rags, but
On that road chariot jostles against chariot, and behind steeds in harness, gold plated and glittering, they go down, coach and four, herald and pastillion, racketing on the hot pavements of hell.
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