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然後眾人徒、備官職、漸慶賞、嚴刑罰以戒其心。
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然後眾人徒、備官職、漸慶賞、嚴刑罰以戒其心。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗然後眾人徒、備官職、漸慶賞、嚴刑罰以戒其心。Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗使天下生民之屬皆知己之所願欲之舉在于是也，Notice a change in argument structure ↗使天下生民之屬皆知己之所願欲之舉在于是也，Recover the object ↗ Connect a modifier to a head ↗ Put a clause inside a larger sentence ↗使天下生民之屬皆知己之所願欲之舉在于是也，Focus on what an action concerns ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 5 其 × 3 賞 × 2 罰 × 2 皆 × 2 知 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 榮辱篇第四天下生民《樂》之分乎。彼固天下之大慮也，將為天下生民之屬長慮顧後而保萬世也，其流長矣，其溫厚矣，其功盛姚遠矣，非順孰脩為之君子，莫之能知
荀子 · 王制篇第九嚴刑罰以謹募選閱材技之士，然後漸慶賞以先之，嚴刑罰以糾之。存亡繼絕，衛弱禁暴，而無兼并之心，則諸侯親之矣；
荀子 · 王制篇第九嚴刑罰以謹募選閱材技之士；然後漸賞慶以先之，嚴刑罰以防之，擇士之知事者使相率貫也，是以厭然畜積脩飾而物用之足也。
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- 荀子 · Xunzi
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- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
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- KR3a0002_010.txt, lines 514–523. XUN 10:9:3, Beida p.150; Knoblock 2:129f
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