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Email Pinterest Reddit Tumblr Report. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Jerry Mitchell On Twitter Otd 1863 Edward Everett Gave 2 Hour Speech But Potus Lincoln S 2 Minute Gettysburgaddress Is One Remembered His Vision For A New Nation Conceived In Liberty Dedicated To Its a rhetorical way of expressing a time span with echoes of the Bible the King James Bible version of Psalm 90 says The days of our years are threescore years and ten ie. 4 score and 7 years ago speech . The Associated Press which was there for the event transmitted the speech as read. Why was the Gettysburg Address so short. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. This phrase comes from the Gettysburg Address a speech given by US President Abraham Lincoln on November 19 1863. A score is equal to 20 years so 4 score and 7 years is 87 years. Score means twenty so a little sum is embedded in this phrase.