Template:RQ:Boyle Scriptures/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Robert Boyle's work Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures (1st edition, 1663). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – use this parameter only to specify the epistle dedicatory (|chapter=Epistle Dedicatory) and the chapter entitled "To the Reader" (|chapter=To the Reader); the rest of the work is not divided into chapters. As these chapters are unpaginated, use |1= or |page= to specify "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=rYDdt6ONsjsC&pg=PP3, specify |page=3.
• |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).

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=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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Boyle Scriptures|page=1|passage={{...}} I ſuppoſe we may now '''ſeaſonably''' proceed to conſider the ''Style'' of the ''Scripture'': A Subject that will as well require as deſerve ſome Time and much Attention; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Boyle Scriptures|1|{{...}} I ſuppoſe we may now '''ſeaſonably''' proceed to conſider the ''Style'' of the ''Scripture'': A Subject that will as well require as deſerve ſome Time and much Attention; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 1:

    […] I ſuppoſe we may now ſeaſonably proceed to conſider the Style of the Scripture: A Subject that will as well require as deſerve ſome Time and much Attention; […]

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Boyle Scriptures|pages=163–164|pageref=164|passage={{...}} Eloquence, the '''Dreſs''' of our Thoughts, like the Dreſs of our Bodies, differs not only in ſeveral Regions, but in ſeveral Ages.}}
• Result:
  • 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, pages 163–164:

    […] Eloquence, the Dreſs of our Thoughts, like the Dreſs of our Bodies, differs not only in ſeveral Regions, but in ſeveral Ages.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Boyle Scriptures|chapter=Epistle Dedicatory|page=21|passage=[W]hen I write of Sacred ſubjects, I had rather a Book of mine ſhould reſemble the Moon, which, though ſhe be but Small, leſs Elevated, and full of Imperfections, lends yet an Uſeful Light to Men, and produces here and there a Motion that obeys a Heavenly Influence; than a Star of the Firſt Magnitude, which though more High, more Vaſt, and more '''Flawleſs''', ſhines only bright enough to make it Self Conſpicuous.}}
• Result:
  • 1663, Robert Boyle, “To the Earl of Orrery, One of the Lords Justices of the Kingdom of Ireland, Lord President of the Province of Mounster, &c.”, in Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC:

    [W]hen I write of Sacred ſubjects, I had rather a Book of mine ſhould reſemble the Moon, which, though ſhe be but Small, leſs Elevated, and full of Imperfections, lends yet an Uſeful Light to Men, and produces here and there a Motion that obeys a Heavenly Influence; than a Star of the Firſt Magnitude, which though more High, more Vaſt, and more Flawleſs, ſhines only bright enough to make it Self Conſpicuous.