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In reply to a respectful message he sent me a kindly 

 greeting, and expressed the hope that he would, ere long, 

 be well enough to receive me ; but he was even then sink 

 ing, and soon passed away. So was lost to mortal sight 

 the greatest German since Luther. 



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