2006-09-04 09:23:25 · 6 answers · asked by spicek3726 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
A score is 20 years, so 4 score and ten years is as my friend above said, 90 years or 1916.
2006-09-04 11:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
i believe it is the Gettysburg Address speech that Abraham Lincoln gave on November 19 1863...but,if i am not mistaken it's more along the lines of
" Four score and SEVEN years ago..." but you can go to www.loc.gov./exhibits/gadd to pull it up in it's entirety to check for certain or hit the encyclopedia or any library..reference Congressional Speeches for example. i hope i helped..good luck and please let me know if i got this wrong.. I truly enjoy learning new things and don't mind being wrong if i can
learn the correct answer ..i feel it is a fair trade to chance it..it is a win-win situation as far as i am concerned. i hope i was helpful if even just a little bit. have a blessed day!
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2006-09-04 19:24:58 · answer #2 · answered by jen h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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. 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 altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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2006-09-04 16:26:54 · answer #3 · answered by chnuna 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I assume you are talking about the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln.....http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
2006-09-04 16:27:49 · answer #4 · answered by Baba O'Riley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Look it up. Any US history book will have it. It's in the Dictionary too.
2006-09-08 03:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1916...it was a very good year...
Sorry, Abe. How quickly they forget.
2006-09-04 16:30:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋