IN

READING THE LITURGY;

WITH

APPENDICES

ON

MISAPPLIED EMPHASIS IN READING THE
SACRED SCRIPTURES,

AND ON PRONUNCIATION.

BY THE

REV. JOHN HENRY HOWLETT, M.A.,

READING CHAPLAIN OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAPEL, WHITEHALL,
AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

"I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the
understanding also."-1 Cor. xiv. 15.

THIRD AND ENLARGED EDITION.

** This Edition differs from the last, chiefly by the insertion
of the TEXT of the Liturgy.

LONDON:

THOMAS MURBY, 32, BOUVERIE ST., FLEET ST.

138. f. 52.

INDEX.

ANALYSIS OF THE PREFACE.

Indifferent reading of the Liturgy a subject of complaint. .

Objections against reading the Service considered

Defects in reading often caused-

1. By supposing the task easy

2. Or that piety alone is necessary

3. By fear of being thought affected

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4. By the real difficulty arising from the repetition of

fixed forms

5. Rapidity

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6. The drawling manner

7. The pompous manner....

8. Concluding sentences inaudibly

9. Concluding with an upward jerk

10. The unvaried manner

11. The theatrical manner

12. The laboured manner

The advantage of previous private practice

Of delivering the Service from memory

How to discover and remedy our own defects.

How to lessen the fatigue of public reading, &c.

A slavish adherence to rules not required

The utility of this work independent of the system of

inflections...

INFLECTIONS OF THE SPEAKING VOICE.

Objections obviated.

Explanation of Inflections

Method of Ready Application

Only the principal need to be marked

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A SELECTION OF THE PRINCIPAL RULES IN

RULE

READING.

I. Simply Declarative Sentences

II. Sentences following in the same train of thought}

III. Negative Sentences

IV. A Question beginning with a Verb

V. A Question asked by means of a Pronoun or

Adverb

VI. Interrogative Sentences are connected by the
disjunctive 'or,' expressed or implied

VII. Interrogative Sentences joined by the subdis-
junctive 'or,' end with the upward inflection..
VIII. Supplicatory Sentences

IX. The Downward Inflection used in the enumera-
tion of particulars.

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X. The Upward Inflection preparatory to the con-

clusion of a sentence

XXI. Transposition of Accent

XXII. The Continuative Inflection

XXIII. Respecting Pauses

XXIV. The Continuative Tone or Apparent Monotone
Explanations of Marks and Types

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The Obsecrations..

The Intercessions

Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions
In Time of War and Tumults

In the Ember Week

A Prayer that may be said after any of the former

for the Parliament

The Prayer for all conditions of men

A General Thanksgiving..

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Magnificat.

Cantate Domino

Nunc Dimittis

Deus Misereatur

EVENING SERVICE.

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