Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
—"The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln
Which quotation correctly uses an ellipsis to shorten Lincoln’s words?
“Four score and seven years ago . . . a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent . . . and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation . . . dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Answers
Aristarchus figured out how to put the Sun amidst the nearby planetary group and he likewise put the planets organized appropriately from the Sun.
He gave a model of the universe with a stationary Sun and planets pivoting in round circles around the Sun.
The stars, which are really stationary, appeared to turn in light of the fact that the Earth pivots without anyone else hub.
Lincoln made this on November 19, 1863 to show that he believed in the principles on which the nation was founded.
Whole passage
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.
Passage 2 (Robert E. Lee, letter to his son, January 23, 1861)
As an American citizen I take great pride in my country, her prosperity, and her institutions, and would defend any State if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It is intended for "perpetual union,” so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution or the consent of all the people in convention assembled.