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1、GettysburgAddressAmodernrecordingofLincoln'sGettysburgAddress:Fourscoreandsevenyearsagoourfathersbroughtforthonthiscontinentanewnation,conceivedinliberty,anddedicatedtothepropositionthatallmenarecreatedequal.Nowweareengagedinagreatcivilwar,testingwhetherthatnation,oranynationsoconceiv
2、edandsodedicated,canlongendure.Wearemetonagreatbattlefieldofthatwar.Wehavecometodedicateaportionofthatfield,asafinalrestingplaceforthosewhoheregavetheirlivesthatthatnationmightlive.Itisaltogetherfittingandproperthatweshoulddothis.But,inalargersense,wecannotdedicate,wecannotconsecrate,
3、wecannothallowthisground.Thebravemen,livinganddead,whostruggledhere,haveconsecratedit,faraboveourpoorpowertoaddordetract.Theworldwilllittlenote,norlongrememberwhatwesayhere,butitcanneverforgetwhattheydidhere.Itisforustheliving,rather,tobededicatedheretotheunfinishedworkwhichtheywhofou
4、ghtherehavethusfarsonoblyadvanced.Itisratherforustobeherededicatedtothegreattaskremainingbeforeus—thatfromthesehonoreddeadwetakeincreaseddevotiontothatcauseforwhichtheygavethelastfullmeasureofdevotion—thatweherehighlyresolvethatthesedeadshallnothavediedinvain—thatthisnation,underGod,s
5、hallhaveanewbirthoffreedom—andthatgovernmentofthepeople,bythepeople,forthepeople,shallnotperishfromtheearth.Background:TheGettysburgAddressisaspeechbyU.S.PresidentAbrahamLincoln,oneofthebest-knowninAmericanhistory.ItwasdeliveredbyLincolnduringtheAmericanCivilWar,ontheafternoonofThursd
6、ay,November19,1863,atthededicationoftheSoldiers'NationalCemeteryinGettysburg,Pennsylvania,fourandahalfmonthsaftertheUnionarmiesdefeatedthoseoftheConfederacyattheBattleofGettysburg.AbrahamLincoln'scarefullycraftedaddress,secondarytootherpresentationsthatday,cametoberegardedasoneofthegr
7、eatestspeechesinAmericanhistory.Injustovertwominutes,LincolnreiteratedtheprinciplesofhumanequalityespousedbytheDeclarationofIndependenceandproclaimedtheCivilWarasastruggleforthepreservationoftheUnionsunderedbythesecessioncrisis,with"anewbirthoffreedom",thatwouldbringtrueequalitytoallo
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