Template:RQ:Cleland Way to Things
1766, [John Cleland], “(please specify the page)”, in The Way to Things by Words, and to Words by Things; […], London: […] L[ockyer John] Davis and C[harles] Reymers, […], →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Cleland Way to Things/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Cleland's work The Way to Things by Words, and to Words by Things (1st edition, 1766). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
| Chapter | First page number |
|---|---|
| Advertisement | page i |
| A Sketch of an Attempt at the Retrieval of the Antient Celtic, or, Primitive Language of Europe | page 1 |
| A Summary Account of the Sanscort or, Learned Language of the Bramins | page 91 |
| Essay on the Musical Waits at Christmas | page 94 |
| Essay on the Real Secret of the Free Masons | page 108 |
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|footnote=– if quoting from a footnote, the footnote symbol quoted from, like this:|footnote=*.|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11or|pages=i–ii. - You must also use
|pageref=to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the chapter of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Cleland Way to Things|page=96|passage=[T]he antient Britons employed for the decoration of their houſes, or, more properly ſpeaking, of their bovvers, branches of ever-green, in invitation to the ſpirits: a cuſtom, vvhich, hovvever the motive may be aboliſhed, is retained to this inſtant. That kind of verdure vvhich is uſed to deck the vvindovvs, and old halls, vve novv, by metonymy, call '''''Chriſtmas'''''.}}; or{{RQ:Cleland Way to Things|96|[T]he antient Britons employed for the decoration of their houſes, or, more properly ſpeaking, of their bovvers, branches of ever-green, in invitation to the ſpirits: a cuſtom, vvhich, hovvever the motive may be aboliſhed, is retained to this inſtant. That kind of verdure vvhich is uſed to deck the vvindovvs, and old halls, vve novv, by metonymy, call '''''Chriſtmas'''''.}}
- Result:
- 1766, [John Cleland], “Essay on the Musical Waits at Christmas”, in The Way to Things by Words, and to Words by Things; […], London: […] L[ockyer John] Davis and C[harles] Reymers, […], →OCLC, page 96:
- [T]he antient Britons employed for the decoration of their houſes, or, more properly ſpeaking, of their bovvers, branches of ever-green, in invitation to the ſpirits: a cuſtom, vvhich, hovvever the motive may be aboliſhed, is retained to this inſtant. That kind of verdure vvhich is uſed to deck the vvindovvs, and old halls, vve novv, by metonymy, call Chriſtmas.
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