Template:RQ:Smith New England/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Smith's work A Description of New England (1st edition, 1616). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|chapter=
– the main part of the work is not divided into chapters. If quoting from the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
Parameter value | Result |
---|---|
Carlton | To My Honest Captaine, the Author (by Tho[mas] Carlton) |
Codrinton | To His Worthy Captaine the Author (by I. Codrinton) |
Councell | To the Right Honourable and Worthy Lords, Knights, & Gentlemen, of His Maiesties Councell, for All Plantations and Discoueries; especially, of New England |
Croshaw | In the Deserued Honour of My Honest and Worthie Captaine, Iohn Smith, and His Worke (by Raleigh Croshaw) |
Davies | In the Deserued Honour of the Author, Captaine Iohn Smith, and His Worke (by John Davies) |
Epistle Dedicatory | To the High Hopeful Charles, Prince of Great Britaine |
Gunnell | To that Worthy and Generous Gentleman, My Verie Good Friend, Captaine Smith (by R. Gunnell) |
Phettiplace | Michael Phettiplace, William Phettiplace, & Richard Wilfing (?), Gentlemen, and Souldiers vnder Captaine Smiths Command: In His Deserued Honor for His Worke, and Worth (by Michael Phettiplace, William Phettiplace, and Richard Wilfing (?)) |
Robinson | To His Worthy Captaine, the Author (by Ed. Robinson) |
Smith | To My Worthy Friend and Cosen, Captaine John Smith (by N. Smith) |
Wither | To His Friend Cap: Smith, vpon His Description of New England (by George Wither) |
- The above chapters are unpaginated. If the template does not automatically determine the webpage to be linked to, use
|1=
or|page=
to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage. For example, if the URL ishttps://books.google.com/books?id=Fz5PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP8
, specify|page=8
.
|1=
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 specify the page number that the template should link 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:
- You must specify this information to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|2=
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
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Smith New England|page=34|passage=May not the miſerable ruine of ''Conſtantinople'', their impregnable vvalles, riches, and pleaſures laſt taken by the ''Turke'' (vvhich are but a bit, in compariſon of their novv mightines) remember vs, of the effects of priuate couetouſneſs? {{...}} His [the Byzantine emperor's] pouertie vvhen the ''Turke'' beſeiged, the citizens (vvhoſe '''marchandizing''' thoughts vvere onely to get vvealth, little conceiuing the deſperate reſolution of a valiant expert enemy) left the Emp[eror] ſo long to his concluſions, hauing ſpent all he had to pay his young, ravv, diſcontented Souldiers; that ſodainly he, they, and their citie vvere all a prey to the deuouring ''Turke''.}}
; or{{RQ:Smith New England|34|May not the miſerable ruine of ''Conſtantinople'', their impregnable vvalles, riches, and pleaſures laſt taken by the ''Turke'' (vvhich are but a bit, in compariſon of their novv mightines) remember vs, of the effects of priuate couetouſneſs? {{...}} His [the Byzantine emperor's] pouertie vvhen the ''Turke'' beſeiged, the citizens (vvhoſe '''marchandizing''' thoughts vvere onely to get vvealth, little conceiuing the deſperate reſolution of a valiant expert enemy) left the Emp[eror] ſo long to his concluſions, hauing ſpent all he had to pay his young, ravv, diſcontented Souldiers; that ſodainly he, they, and their citie vvere all a prey to the deuouring ''Turke''.}}
- Result:
- 1616, Iohn Smith [i.e., John Smith], A Description of New England: […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerke; […], →OCLC, page 34:
- May not the miſerable ruine of Conſtantinople, their impregnable vvalles, riches, and pleaſures laſt taken by the Turke (vvhich are but a bit, in compariſon of their novv mightines) remember vs, of the effects of priuate couetouſneſs? […] His [the Byzantine emperor's] pouertie vvhen the Turke beſeiged, the citizens (vvhoſe marchandizing thoughts vvere onely to get vvealth, little conceiuing the deſperate reſolution of a valiant expert enemy) left the Emp[eror] ſo long to his concluſions, hauing ſpent all he had to pay his young, ravv, diſcontented Souldiers; that ſodainly he, they, and their citie vvere all a prey to the deuouring Turke.
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