Had purest orison the skill and force To bend eternal justice from its course?
The kind counsel of a new book by Orison Swett Marden, who says there are many people who are good to others but not to themselves This is a fine volume from every point of view.
Peter began with neither gold nor silver, And I with orison and abstinence, And Francis with humility his convent.
In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under a triple coating of daubing paint.
Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing.
In her hand she held a book of the time of Solomon and she was saying an orison to God.
And each monke him taketh one, And snellich beareth forth their prey [quickly To the mochil grey abbey, And teacheth the nuns an orison With jambleue up and down.
Orison returned to the guests and reported the woman to be out of danger.
Orison offered his services and the rest of the men hastened to the fire; but a stream of water was pouring down on it from the Engine House and their aid was not needed.
The matter is complicated by the fact that the Orison is only a copy, probably a copy of a copy, perhaps one of a succession of copies.
Dialect:# The Orison in its present form agrees substantially with the copy of the Ancren Riwle in the same manuscript; both are in the dialect of the scribe, that of the Middle South.
Her orison scarce o'er, Jaufry stepped out, and ere the giant could again his heavy club let fall, he with his trenchant blade had severed his right arm.
Maria merely whispered the words of the orison and kept her eyes fastened on the ground.
Immediately began a new orisonlike the first, addressed to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
When the orison was ended, the priest repeated three Pater Nosters and three Ave Marias in honor of the three marks of the passion with which the divine Heart of Jesus showed itself to the Blessed Mother Margarita of Alacoque.
But more robust seekers hold that this "orison of quiet" is merely a state of preparation, not the end of the quest, and valuable merely because the soul recuperates therein and is ready for further action.
One day there was being repeated, on his account and in his presence, an orison to St. Eutropius, who was implored to grant health to the soul and health to the body.
I arrived at Amboise two days after his decease; I went to say mine orison at the spot where was the corpse; and there I was for five or six hours.
Kneel down and say such devout orison That they may hear us pray.
I make mine orison Sith it hath pleased Thy noble grace algate That I, unworthy of so great renown, In this world shall have possession: Thou give me grace myself to enure As may me profit, and be to Thy pleasure.
In the orison of union," says Saint Teresa, "the soul is fully awake as regards God, but wholly asleep as regards things of this world and in respect of herself.
Saint Teresa is the expert of experts in describing such conditions, so I will turn immediately to what she says of one of the highest of them, the "orison of union.
Through the practice of orison the higher levels of mystical experience may be attained.
The first thing to be aimed at in orison is the mind's detachment from outer sensations, for these interfere with its concentration upon ideal things.
Then came the prayer for the beginning of the day; then bending down, we commenced the Orison Mental (or Mental Orison), which lasted about an hour and a half.
