Hanfeizi · 外儲說右下第三十五
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民知殺生之命制於子罕也，
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民知殺生之命制於子罕也，Locate a relation ↗故子罕劫宋君而奪其政，Read the relationship between clauses ↗故子罕劫宋君而奪其政，Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗Watch recurrence: 子 × 3 罕 × 3 也 × 3 故 × 3 而 × 2 為 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 內儲說下六微第三十一君而奪其重於君，二人爭事而相害也，皇喜遂殺宋君而奪其政。
韓非子 · 外儲說右下第三十五為圃池也民為渴馬，不以恩加民；而田成恆以仁厚為圃池也。
韓非子 · 外儲說右下第三十五子罕為出令不行。何以明之？明之以造父、於期。子罕為出彘，田恆為圃池，故宋君、簡公弒。患在王良、造父之共車，田連、成竅之共琴也。
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_035.txt, lines 302–310. HF 35.06:16 [10]; jiaoshi 595; jishi 755; shiping 1306; jiaozhu 472; m400
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