Gettysburg Address-林肯.pptVIP

Unit 15 Book 4 Text I Text I A Abraham Lincoln—the sixteenth President of the United States. (photos) 1861-1865 Born: February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky Died: April 15, 1865. Lincoln died the morning after being shot at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. Text I A Nickname: Honest Abe; Illinois Rail-SplitterMarriage: Nov. 4, 1842, to Mary Todd (1818-82) Children: Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926); Edward Baker Lincoln (1846-50); William Wallace Lincoln (1850-62); Thomas Tad Lincoln (1853-71) Text I A Gettysburg Address Fourscore and seven years ago,1 our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.2 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, 3 testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, 4 can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.5 (Translation) Text I A We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave there lives that that nation might live.6 It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicatedwe cannot consecratewe cannot hallowthis ground.7 The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. (Translation) Text I A 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 usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause 8 for which they gave the last full measure of devotion9(Translation) Text I A that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a n