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69 Han characters · 48 distinct forms · 14 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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且夫暴國之君，
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荀子 · 王制篇第九夫暴國之所偏而為縱橫之事，偃然案兵無動，以觀夫暴國之相捽也。案平政教，審節奏，砥礪百姓，為是之日，而兵剸天下之勁矣；
荀子 · 王制篇第九彼其所與何則？彼無與至也。彼其所與至者，必其民也，其民之親我也歡若父母，好我芳若芝蘭；反顧其上則若灼黥，若仇讎。
荀子 · 王制篇第九肯為其所彼人之情性也，雖桀、跖，豈有肯為其所惡，賊其所好者哉！彼以奪矣。故古之人有以一國取天下者，非往行之也，脩政其所，天下莫不
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_015.txt, lines 131–143. XUN 15:1b:8, Beida p.231; Knoblock 2:220f
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