But the intellectual power of the Gettysburg Address is deliberately borrowed from America’s founding documents. The style was Lincoln’s, with a little help from the King James Bible (“fourscore and seven years ago” echoes Psalm 90:10). What more is there to say about America’s most famous speech? Maybe this: that it was not meant to be unique. For the smoothness of its music, the gravity of its occasion and the conciseness of its 272 words, the Gettysburg Address occupies a unique position in American oratory. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.
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