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merit and whose memory is still held
And here I think myself under an obligation to relate what I have met touching this marriage in the dispatches of count Bassewitz, aulic counsellor at Vienna, and long time minister from Holstein at the court of Russia; a person of great merit, and whose memory is still held in the highest esteem in Germany.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

me and whom methinks I still hear
Only this, to beseech your majesty on the knees of my heart, to conclude my punishment, my misery and my life together; that I may go to my Saviour, who hath paid himself a ransom for me, and whom, methinks, I still hear calling me out of this unkind world, in which I have lived too long, and once thought myself too happy.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

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