Hanfeizi · 五蠹第四十九
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故令尹誅而楚姦不上聞，
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故令尹誅而楚姦不上聞，Follow an explicit inference ↗故令尹誅而楚姦不上聞，Read the relationship between clauses ↗故令尹誅而楚姦不上聞，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 4 之 × 3 不 × 2 上 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 徐无鬼第二十四社稷之福今老邪？其欲干酒肉之味邪？其寡人亦有社稷之福邪？」
韓非子 · 用人第二十七上下之利故明主除人臣之所苦，而立人主之所樂。上下之利，莫長於此。
韓非子 · 五蠹第四十九而人主兼儒以文亂法，俠以武犯禁，而人主兼禮之，此所以亂也。夫離法者罪，而諸先生以文學取；犯禁者誅，而群俠以私劍養。
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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
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_049.txt, lines 531–538. HF 49.09:06; jiaoshi 43; jishi 1057; jiaozhu 670; shiping 1723; Watson 105
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