Hanfeizi · 難三第三十八
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以一人之力禁一國者，
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以一人之力禁一國者，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗以一人之力禁一國者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗明能照遠姦而見隱微，Read the relationship between clauses ↗明能照遠姦而見隱微，Identify who undergoes the action ↗雖遠於海，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 4 一 × 2 國 × 2 者 × 2 能 × 2 遠 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孫子 · 軍爭篇以一人之故為旌旗。」夫金鼓旌旗者，所以一人之耳目也；人既專一，則勇者不得獨進，怯者不得獨退，此用眾之法也。故夜戰多火鼓，晝戰多旌
莊子 · 徐无鬼第二十四以一人之義之行，唯且无誠，且假夫禽貪者器。是以一人之斷制（利）天下，譬之猶一覕也。夫堯知賢人之利天下也，而不知其賊天下也，夫唯外乎賢者知
韓非子 · 難三第三十八人之力禁處勢而不能用其有，而悖不去國，是以一人之力禁一國。
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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_038.txt, lines 194–203. HF 38.06:02; jiaoshi 351; jishi i49; shiping 1425; jiaozhu 541; m453; Liao 2.175
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