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What is the importance of the four score and seven years ago and why do people use it now?
That was Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, where he referred to the Declaration of Independence in biblical terms, to add gravitas.
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What is the first 6 words of the Gettysburg Address?
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
How many years were in the Gettysburg address?
"Four score and seven years" which indicates 87 years (4x20 +7), the time between the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) and the Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863).87a score is 20 years, so 4 score is 80 years plus 7.
What are the first 6 words of the Gettysburg Address delivered by President Abraham Lincoln?
Four score and seven years ago
How many years in fourscore and seven years?
Fourscore and seven years is a phrase that means 87 years. "Score" refers to a period of 20 years, so four score would be 80 years, plus an additional 7 years makes a total of 87.
What are the famous opening words to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
"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, that the governmnt of the people, by the pepole, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "...and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
What is the first 6 words of the Gettysburg Address?
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
What does score mean at the end of a number?
A score is equal to twenty. "Four score and seven years" is eighty-seven years.
What does four score and seven years equal?
One score is 20 years so four score (80) and seven years ago would be 87 years.
What is the word for twenty years?
a score, as in "Four score and seven years..."
How many years is fore score and seven years?
87 A score is 20 years.
How many years are 'fourscore and seven'?
A "score" is twenty, so four score and seven = 87.
Four score and seven from the bible how many years?
A score is twenty years. So four score and seven is (4 X 20) + 7 years or 87 years. However, the usual quote is three score and ten years (70 years) which represented the life expectancy in those days.
The value of a score as in four score and seven years ago?
20
How would you express 154 in terms of score 20 years?
Seven score and fourteen years.
What age is A score and six?
26...a score = twenty (as in "...four score & seven years ago..." means 87 years)
What does four score mean in the Gettysburg address?
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
How many years is for score and seven years ago?
87
