Old English past tense bÃ¦r became Middle English bare; alternative bore began to appear c.1400, but bare remained the literary form till after 1600. Past participle distinction of borne for carried and born for given birth is from late 18c. To bear (something) in mind is from 1530s.
Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Share this: On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offers his conciliatory plan for reunification of theUnited Stateswith his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. By this point in the Civil War, it was clear that Lincoln needed to make some preliminary plans for postwar reconstruction.
The White House has released two excerpts of President Obama's prime-time speech. In the first, he says this approach is not amnesty. Instead, the president will say, leaving the system the way it is amounts to amnesty. Mass amnesty would be unfair, Obama will say.