Template:RQ:Montesquieu Davidson Persian Letters

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from an English translation by John Davidson of Montesquieu's work Persian Letters (1st edition, 1892). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

|chapter= – if quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

Parameter value	Result	First page number
`Introduction`	Introduction (by Montesquieu)	page 35
`Some Reflections on the Persian Letters`	Some Reflections on the Persian Letters (attributed to Montesquieu)	page 31
`Translator's Introduction`	Introduction (by Davidson)	page 1

|section= – if quoting from the translator's introduction, the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
|1= or |letter=, and |lettername= – if quoting from the main part of the work, use |1= or |letter= to specify the letter number in uppercase Roman numerals, and |lettername= the name of the letter.

|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).

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.

Wikitext:
- {{RQ:Montesquieu Davidson Persian Letters|letter=CXVI|lettername=Usbek to the Same [Rhedi]|page=259|passage=In my future letters I shall perhaps take the opportunity to prove to you that the more men there are in a state, the more prosperous its commerce; I shall prove as easily, that as commerce flourishes, men increase; these two things necessarily '''aid and abet''' each other.}}; or
- {{RQ:Montesquieu Davidson Persian Letters|CXVI|lettername=Usbek to the Same [Rhedi]|259|In my future letters I shall perhaps take the opportunity to prove to you that the more men there are in a state, the more prosperous its commerce; I shall prove as easily, that as commerce flourishes, men increase; these two things necessarily '''aid and abet''' each other.}}
Result:
- [1892], [Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de] Montesquieu, “Letter CXVI: Usbek to the Same [Rhedi]”, in John Davidson, transl., Persian Letters, London: George Routledge & Sons; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 259:
  In my future letters I shall perhaps take the opportunity to prove to you that the more men there are in a state, the more prosperous its commerce; I shall prove as easily, that as commerce flourishes, men increase; these two things necessarily aid and abet each other.

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