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47 Han characters · 38 distinct forms · 6 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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兼是數國者，
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未有貴上、安制、綦節之理也；Keep different negatives apart ↗未有貴上、安制、綦節之理也；Locate the unknown ↗諸侯有能微妙之以節，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 5 也 × 3 兼 × 2 有 × 2 節 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 議兵篇第十五賣之道也。故賞慶、刑罰、埶詐之為道者，傭徒粥賣之道也，不足以合大眾、美國家，故古之人羞而不道也。
荀子 · 正論篇第十八諸侯有能，有埶籍者罷不足以縣天下，天下無君；諸侯有能德明威積，海內之民莫不願得以為君師，然而暴國獨侈安能誅之，必傷害無罪之民，誅暴國之君
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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 312–317. XUN 15:1d:7, Beida p.234; Knoblock 2:223f
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