Book of Odes · Mao witness · 大雅
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民亦勞止，
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荀子 · 致士篇第十四惠此中國令行禁止，王者之事畢矣。《詩》曰：「惠此中國，以綏四方。」
詩經 · 板是用大諫不遠。靡聖管管，不實于亶。猶之未遠，是用大諫！
詩經 · 民勞惠此中國民亦勞止，汔可小康。惠此中國，以綏四方。無縱詭隨，以謹無良。式遏寇虐，憯不畏明？柔遠能邇，以定我王！
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- Work
- 詩經 · Book of Odes · Mao witness
- Attribution
- Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1c0001_024.txt, lines 674–683. SHI 253.5
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- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
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