Template:RQ:Emerson Fortune
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1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Emerson Fortune/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's work Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878. (1st edition, 1878). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|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 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.
|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:Emerson Fortune|page=1|passage=The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [[w:Isaac Newton|[Isaac] Newton]] explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better '''time-keeper''' than any then in use.}}; or{{RQ:Emerson Fortune|1|The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [[w:Isaac Newton|[Isaac] Newton]] explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better '''time-keeper''' than any then in use.}}
- Result:
- 1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC, page 1:
- The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Emerson Fortune|pages=83–84|pageref=83|passage=The '''felon''' is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal. But my point now is, that this spirit is not American.}} - Result:
- 1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC, pages 83–84:
- The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal. But my point now is, that this spirit is not American.
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