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<strong>of</strong> Peisistratus, while its historical probability<br />

must be measured by that <strong>of</strong> many<br />

others relating to the Spartan Confucius.<br />

I will conclude this sketch <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Homer</strong>ic<br />

theories, with an attempt, made by<br />

an ingenious friend, to unite them into<br />

something like consistency. It is as follows:—<br />

"No doubt the common<br />

soldiers <strong>of</strong> that age had,<br />

like the common sailors<br />

<strong>of</strong> some fifty years ago,<br />

some one qualified to<br />

'discourse in excellent<br />

music' among them.<br />

Many <strong>of</strong> these, like those<br />

<strong>of</strong> the negroes in the United<br />

States, were extemporaneous,<br />

and allusive<br />

to events passing around

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