2007-01-27 16:29:27 · 15 answers · asked by amro a 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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.
2007-01-27 16:34:45 · answer #1 · answered by MuaRung 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I learned this in the fifth grade and I still remember it. 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.
2007-01-28 00:52:35 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Sir 5 · 1⤊ 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.
2007-01-28 00:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by paul13051956 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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.
2007-01-28 00:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by dmc81076 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"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."
-Abraham Lincoln,
November 19th, 1863
2007-01-31 07:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by Gettysburg Ghost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im inclined to think....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
Then it goes on and on but thats the first line
2007-01-28 00:37:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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.
2007-01-28 00:41:39 · answer #7 · answered by sharpshooter 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Four score, and seven years ago.
Our fathers founded a nation conceived in liberty with justice for all.
2007-01-28 00:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by Robert 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's this funny quaintly expressed math problem.
It gets worse - 'our fathers' - whose father was doing much 87 years ago?
Then you get this weird birth metaphor about 'brought forth' and 'conceived'.
Finally, it's dedicated to - an ideal? - a conviction? - no, a PROPOSITION!!
Teachers tell you it's a great speech. You shouldn't believe everything a teacher tells you.
2007-01-28 01:10:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What was regarded as the "Gettysburg Address" that day was not the short speech delivered by President Lincoln, but rather Edward Everett's two-hour oration. Everett's now seldom-read 13,607-word speech began:
Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature. But the duty to which you have called me must be performed; — grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy.
2007-01-28 00:42:33 · answer #10 · answered by Gary S 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋