Template:RQ:Bacon Letters and Remains

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of Francis Bacon's works entitled Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon (1st edition, 1734) compiled by Robert Stephens and edited by John Lockyer. It can be used to create a link to an online edition of the work (contents) at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |title= – mandatory: the title quoted from. If quoting from one of the titles indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

• |chapter= and |chaptername= – if a title is divided into chapters, use |chapter= to specify the chapter number in uppercase Roman numerals and |chaptername= to specify the name of the chapter.
• |date=, or (|month= and) |year= – if the date of a title (for example, a letter) quoted from is known, use |date= to specify it in the format 13 January 1616 or January 13, 1616. The date will be converted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. If only month and year, or year alone, of the title is known, use |month= and |year= to specify this information.
• |2= or |page=; or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) 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.
  • 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage quoted from the work.
• |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:Bacon Letters and Remains|title=Valerius Terminus|chapter=XI|chaptername=The Chapter Immediately Following the Inventary; Being the 11th in Order, a Part thereof|page=411|passage=he tvvo commended rules by him [{{w|Aristotle}}] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are '''precepted''' to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Bacon Letters and Remains|Valerius Terminus|chapter=XI|chaptername=The Chapter Immediately Following the Inventary; Being the 11th in Order, a Part thereof|411|he tvvo commended rules by him [{{w|Aristotle}}] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are '''precepted''' to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.}}
• Result:
  • 1603 (date written), Bacon, “Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature; with the Annotations of Hermes Stella. Chapter XI. The Chapter Immediately Following the Inventary; Being the 11th in Order, a Part thereof.”, in Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by , Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: W Bowyer, published 1734, →OCLC, page 411:

    he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Bacon Letters and Remains|title=Dedication|page=i|passage=May Your Majeſty be pleaſed to accept theſe remains of a noble Author, as they vvere collected by the care of Your late '''Hiſtoriographer'''; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1734, Mary Stephens, “To the King”, in Bacon, Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by , Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: W Bowyer, →OCLC, page :

    May Your Majeſty be pleaſed to accept theſe remains of a noble Author, as they vvere collected by the care of Your late Hiſtoriographer; […]