Excerpt from A Reply to a Resolution of the Georgia Historical Society: Read Before the Society at Its Anniversary Meeting, February 12th, 1866 Perhaps excepted, which has lost literary tone and taste. Democratic institutions and levelling principles have done their work, and save where some great liter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.