A speech delivered by President Lincoln in 1863 commemorating Independence Day.
Four scores and seven years:
4 scores x 20 years/score + 7 yrs.= 80 yrs + 7 yrs.
= 87 years
1863 - 87 = 1776 which was the year the then United States declared independence on July 4.
This speech was give in 1863 and four score and seven years is 87 years. So,
1863 - 87
= 1776
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True enough.
The opening line is: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."Here's the first paragraph: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth to this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
Gettysburg Address. ... conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
Abraham Lincoln, to begin his Gettysburg Address, used the line: "Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
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The U.S. Civil War effectively ended slavery in the U.S. and it brought the nation closer together. Before the war the average citizen would say, "The United States are" instead of, "The United States is" They were implying that the U.S. wasn't one as a nation.
The first sentence in the Gettysburg Address is "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Lincoln was referring to the declaration of independence from Britain but the colonists in 1776.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
four score and seven years ago my fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceved in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal - Abe Lincoln
A score = 20 years, so:4 x 20 = 8080 + 7 =8787Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address in 1863 and said "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." If you subtract 87 years from the year 1863, you get 1776; the year our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence.
The opening line is: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."Here's the first paragraph: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth to this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
The Gettysburg Address was often assigned to students to memorized in school. It opens in this way: 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.'
eighty-seven years ago the constitution was written to promote liberty and equality.
Gettysburg Address. ... conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
"Score" simply means 20 in English. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." (Abraham Lincoln)