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90 Cowper quotation below, and in the anonymous one that precedes it.

'Rules that shall be general, and that can...'

'The man who was goldsmith to...and who'.

It is a compliment due, and which I willingly pay, to those who administer our affairs.—.

All these are correct, with defining coordinates throughout.

'A junior subaltern, with pronounced military and political views, with no false modesty in expressing them, and who (sic) possesses the ear of the public,...'—(Quoted by the Times.)

'Who has...views, and who...' 'Sic' is the comment of the Times writer. The coordination is correct.

These are the instances of false expansion alluded to above. The former is based on the non-defining expansion 'in all its moods, which are varied and capricious'; the true expansion being 'in all the varied and capricious moods in which it reveals itself', a defining clause, which will not do with the 'and which'. Similarly, the second is based on the non-defining expansion 'in my uncle's present state, which is an infirm one'; the true expansion is 'in the infirm state in which my uncle now is'. In both, a non-defining clause is coordinated with words that can only yield a defining clause.