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See Sir R. Blackmore’s Accomplished Preacher, Sect. viii. May we not learn a lesson of conviction from Garrick’s reply to a preacher, who asked—‘How is it that you who deal in nothing but fiction, can so affect your audience, as to throw them into tears; while we, who deliver the most awful and interesting truths, can scarcely produce any effect whatever?’Here lies the secret: you deliver your truths as if they were fictions; but we deliver our fictions as if they were truth.