"It was the attacks connected with the controversy about the "Naval History" that more than anything else embittered ’s feelings. He had striven hard to write a full and trustworthy account of the achievements of his country upon the sea. Because he had refused to pervert what he deemed the truth to the gratification of private spite, he had been assailed with a malignity that had hardly stopped short of any species of misrepresentation. Rarely has devotion to the right met with a worse return. The reward of untiring industry, of patriotic zeal, and of conscientious examination of evidence, was little else than calumny and abuse. He felt so keenly the treatment he had received that he regretted having ever written the "Naval History" at all."
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Thomas Lounsbury
(January 1, 1838 – April 9, 1915) was an American literary historian, literary critic, author of several books, and professor of English language and literature at Yale University. He is noteworthy for his 1882 biography of James Fenimore Cooper and his 3-volume ‘’Studies in Chaucer’’ (Harper & Brothers, 1892).
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