His own views are moderate, and perhaps as satisfactory, on the whole, as any of the hypotheses hitherto put forth.

In fact, they consist in an attempt to blend those hypotheses into something like consistency, rather than in advocating any individual theory.
23 Letters to Phileleuth; Lips.
24 Hist.

of Greece, vol.ii.p.

191, sqq.
25 It is, indeed not easy to calculate the height to which the memory may be cultivated.

To take an ordinary case, we might refer to that of any first rate actor, who must be prepared, at a very short warning, to 'rhapsodize,' night after night, parts which when laid together, would amount to an immense number of lines.