Gettysburg Address

[David Lockmiller]

(07-19-2019 10:28 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Most scholars agree that Lincoln's famous turn of phrase "Four score and seven years ago" came from the King James Version of the Bible, with which he was so familiar, and wherein the phrase "three score and ten" appears numerous times.

Captain Mix, the commander, at one period, of the President's body-guard, was frequently invited to breakfast with the family at the "Soldiers' Home" residence. "Many times," said he, "have I listened to our most eloquent preachers, but never with the same feeling of awe and reverence, as when our Christian President, his arm around his son, with his deep, earnest tone, each morning read a chapter from the Bible."

-- F.B. Carpenter, Six Months At The White House, pages 261-62.