Template:RQ:Warburton Prodigies/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from William Warburton's work A Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as Related by Historians (1st edition, 1727). 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:

• |footnote= – if quoting from a footnote, specify |footnote=1 or |footnote=yes.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) to be quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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 or |pages=x–xi.
  • 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).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the part of the work (the dedication, or part I or II) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a 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:Warburton Prodigies|page=1|passage={{smallcaps|'''Prodigies'''}} and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than ''Polybius'' has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called {{smallcaps|Tragedies}} than {{smallcaps|History}}.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Warburton Prodigies|1|{{smallcaps|'''Prodigies'''}} and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than ''Polybius'' has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called {{smallcaps|Tragedies}} than {{smallcaps|History}}.}}
• Result:
  • 1727, William Warburton, “Part I”, in A Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as Related by Historians. […], London: […] Thomas Corbett, […], →OCLC, page 1:

    Prodigies and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than Polybius has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called Tragedies than History.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Warburton Prodigies|pages=78–79|pageref=78|passage=Novv, vvhat a fine Opportunity vvas here of introducing his Story, in all the Blaze and Terror of anxious and diſordered Nature? VVith vvhat a '''Sublime''' might that Flaſh of Lightning have been brought in, to grace the approaching Ruin, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1727, William Warburton, “Part II”, in A Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as Related by Historians. […], London: […] Thomas Corbett, […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:

    Novv, vvhat a fine Opportunity vvas here of introducing his Story, in all the Blaze and Terror of anxious and diſordered Nature? VVith vvhat a Sublime might that Flaſh of Lightning have been brought in, to grace the approaching Ruin, […]