Template:RQ:Hume Human Understanding/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from David Hume's work Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1st edition, 1748). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the "chapter" or essay quoted from.
• |part= – the part of the essay quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from. 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=10–11.
  • 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.

• |3=, |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:Hume Human Understanding|chapter=Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.|part=I|page=70|passage=The Academics talk alvvays of Doubts and ſuſpense of Judgment, of Danger in haſty Determinations, of confining to the very narrovv Bounds the Enquiries of the Understanding, and of renouncing all Speculations that lie not vvithin the Limits of common Life and Practice. Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than ſuch a Philoſophy to the '''ſupine''' Indolence of the Mind, its raſh Arrogance, its lofty Pretenſions, and its ſuperſtitious Credulity.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Hume Human Understanding|Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.|part=I|70|The Academics talk alvvays of Doubts and ſuſpense of Judgment, of Danger in haſty Determinations, of confining to the very narrovv Bounds the Enquiries of the Understanding, and of renouncing all Speculations that lie not vvithin the Limits of common Life and Practice. Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than ſuch a Philoſophy to the '''ſupine''' Indolence of the Mind, its raſh Arrogance, its lofty Pretenſions, and its ſuperſtitious Credulity.}}
• Result:
  • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part I, page 70:

    The Academics talk alvvays of Doubts and ſuſpense of Judgment, of Danger in haſty Determinations, of confining to the very narrovv Bounds the Enquiries of the Understanding, and of renouncing all Speculations that lie not vvithin the Limits of common Life and Practice. Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than ſuch a Philoſophy to the ſupine Indolence of the Mind, its raſh Arrogance, its lofty Pretenſions, and its ſuperſtitious Credulity.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Hume Human Understanding|chapter=Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.|part=I|pages=69–70|pageref=70|passage=VVhile vve ſtudy vvith Attention the Vanity of human Life, and turn all our Thoughts on the empty and tranſitory Nature of Riches and Honours, vve are, perhaps, all the vvhile flattering our natural Indolence, vvhich, hating the Buſtle of the World, and '''Drudgery''' of Buſineſs, ſeeks a Pretext of Reaſon, to give itſelf a full and uncontroul'd Indulgence.}}
• Result:
  • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part I, pages 69–70:

    VVhile vve ſtudy vvith Attention the Vanity of human Life, and turn all our Thoughts on the empty and tranſitory Nature of Riches and Honours, vve are, perhaps, all the vvhile flattering our natural Indolence, vvhich, hating the Buſtle of the World, and Drudgery of Buſineſs, ſeeks a Pretext of Reaſon, to give itſelf a full and uncontroul'd Indulgence.