Template:RQ:Emerson English Traits
1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “(please specify the chapter or essay name)”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Emerson English Traits/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's work English Traits (1st edition, 1856). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|essay=– mandatory: the chapter or essay name quoted from.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. 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. - 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 pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|3=,|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:Emerson English Traits|chapter=Voyage to England|page=33|passage=Our good master keeps his '''kites''' up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.}}; or{{RQ:Emerson English Traits|Voyage to England|33|Our good master keeps his '''kites''' up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.}}
- Result:
- 1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Voyage to England”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, page 33:
- Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Emerson English Traits|chapter=Aristocracy|pages=187–188|pageref=188|passage=[I]f they never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of every thing, in every kind, and they see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious '''particularities'''.}} - Result:
- 1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Aristocracy”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, pages 187–188:
- [I]f they never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of every thing, in every kind, and they see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities.
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