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@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 4 *** - -This is a retranscription of one of the first Project -Gutenberg Etexts, offically dated December 31, 1974-- -and now officially re-released on November 19, 1993-- -130 years after it was spoken. We will rerelease the -Inaugural Address of President Kennedy, officially on -November 22, 1993, on the day of the 30th anniversary -of his assassination. - - - - -Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 -on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA - - -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. We are met on a great battlefield 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 this nation might live. -It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. - -But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . -we cannot 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 this earth. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 4 *** - |