Template:RQ:Bentley Epistles

1697, Richard Bentley, “(please specify the page)”, in A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others; and the Fables of Æsop, London: […] J. Leake, for Peter Buck, […], →OCLC:

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Bentley Epistles/documentation. ^[edit]

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Richard Bentley's work A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (1st edition, 1697; and 1699 version). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:

A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others; and the Fables of Æsop (1st edition, 1697; archived at the Internet Archive).
A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire (1699 version; archived at the Internet Archive) – contains a long preface responding to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery's criticisms of the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris in the 1st edition and the dissertation itself; the other dissertations in the 1st edition were omitted.

Chapter	First page number
1st edition (1697)
Sir William Temple’s Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning, Pag. 58 (by Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet)	page 3
To Mr. [William] Wotton	page 5
Of Phalaris’s Epistles	page 11
Of Themistocles’s Epistles	page 79
Of Socrates’s Epistles	page 89
Of Euripides’s Epistles	page 114
Of Æsop’s Fables	page 134
1699 version
The Preface	page iii
A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris	page 1
Addenda	page 541

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

|year= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1699 version, specify |year=1699. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1697).
|section= – in the 1699 version, the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris is divided into sections. Use this parameter to specify the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
|1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or (in the 1699 version) lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=x–xi.
- You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have template determine the chapter quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

In the 1699 version, page 545 is misnumbered 549; specify it as |page=545.

|chapter= – in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the name of the chapter quoted from. However, in the 1st edition it is unable to do so if page 114 or 134 is specified, in which case this parameter must be used to specify the name of the chapter as indicated in the first column of the following table:

Parameter value	Result
`Socrates`	Of Socrates’s Epistles
`Euripides`	Of Euripides’s Epistles
`Aesop`	Of Æsop’s Fables

|2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
|footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
|brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

1st edition

Wikitext:
- {{RQ:Bentley Epistles|page=39|passage=VVe cannot tell, at this '''diſtance''' of time, vvhich Converſation vvas firſt, that vvith ''Phalaris'', or that vvith ''Leon''.}}; or
- {{RQ:Bentley Epistles|39|VVe cannot tell, at this '''diſtance''' of time, vvhich Converſation vvas firſt, that vvith ''Phalaris'', or that vvith ''Leon''.}}
Result:
- 1697, Richard Bentley, “Of Phalaris’s Epistles”, in A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others; and the Fables of Æsop, London: […] J. Leake, for Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, page 39:
  VVe cannot tell, at this diſtance of time, vvhich Converſation vvas firſt, that vvith Phalaris, or that vvith Leon.

1699 version

Wikitext: {{RQ:Bentley Epistles|year=1699|page=iii|passage=[T]hey have acted in this Calumny both the injuſtice of the Tyrant, and the forgery of the '''Sophiſt'''.}}
Result:
- 1699, Richard Bentley, “The Preface”, in A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for Henry Mortlock […], and John Hartley […], →OCLC, page iii:
  [T]hey have acted in this Calumny both the injuſtice of the Tyrant, and the forgery of the Sophiſt.