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Gettysburg address
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ago
In Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, he used this (at the time) widely known measure of "score," meaning "20 years." In modern language, it would be simply "87 years ago." However, the widespread familiarity of Lincoln's address, the unusual and poetic wording, and its status as the first words of the speech have ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
Beginning with the now-iconic phrase
"Four score and seven years ago" —referring to the signing of the Declaration of Independence eighty-seven years earlier—Lincoln invoked the United States' founding principles as set forth in that document, then reminded his listeners of the peril to those principles posed by the Civil ...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
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