Richard Grant White (1822-1885) was an American writer, critic, journalist, and lawyer. He was a noted scholar of Shakespeare and of word usage, and served as chief of the U.S. Revenue-Marine (a precursor to the Coast Guard) from 1861 to 1878.
As a general rule, the higher the culture, the simpler the style and the plainer the speech.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
