Original sentence: "  In a discussion "A more probable origin of a famous Lincoln phrase," in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Albert Shaw credits a correspondent with pointing out the writings of William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, who wrote in the 1888 work Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of A Great Life that he had brought to Lincoln some of the sermons of abolitionist minister Theodore Parker, of Massachusetts, and that Lincoln was moved by Parker's use of this idea:
Edited sentence: "  Lincoln deleted "The Bible..." when he lifted the quotation." Lincoln deleted "The Bible..." when he lifted the quotation.Another Lincoln scholar claims that among the four books in the Lincoln boyhood home was a Wycliffe Bible, so that Lincoln may have read the famous Wycliffe phrase as a boy.In a discussion "A more probable origin of a famous Lincoln phrase," in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Albert Shaw credits a correspondent with pointing out the writings of William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, who wrote in the 1888 work Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of A Great Life that he had brought to Lincoln some of the sermons of abolitionist minister Theodore Parker, of Massachusetts, and that Lincoln was moved by Parker's use of this idea:.In the General Prologue to the first translation of the Holy Bible into English, in 1388 A.John Wycliffe.Other scholars have speculated many other sources, yet overlook that the Bartlett's Familiar Quotations of 1863 combines Lincoln and Rev.The words now attributed to Honest Abe Lincoln "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" were printed earlier that year in the 1863 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations rightly attributed to their author, the Rev.Whether or not read as a boy, the words of Rev.Wycliffe in the same volume.Wycliffe were available to Lincoln from the 1863 printing of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, that had been updated with some of Lincoln's quotations, but obviously none of the famous words from the Gettysburg Address since it had not yet been spoken when the 1863 revised edition was printed.Wycliffe wrote: "The Bible is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people