This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Edmund Burke's work An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1st and 3rd editions, 1791). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the works at Google Books and the Internet Archive:
The template takes the following parameters:
|edition=
– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 3rd edition, specify |edition=3rd
. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition.|1=
or |page=
, or |pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
|pages=10–11
.|pageref=
to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|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.{{RQ:Burke Whigs|page=120|passage=The '''democratick''' commonvvealth is the foodfull nurſe of ambition. {{...}} VVhenever, in ſtates vvhich have had a '''democratick''' baſis, they have endeavoured to put reſtraints upon ambition, their methods vvere as violent, as in the end they vvere ineffectual; as violent indeed as any the moſt jealous deſpotiſm could invent.}}
; or{{RQ:Burke Whigs|120|The '''democratick''' commonvvealth is the foodfull nurſe of ambition. {{...}} VVhenever, in ſtates vvhich have had a '''democratick''' baſis, they have endeavoured to put reſtraints upon ambition, their methods vvere as violent, as in the end they vvere ineffectual; as violent indeed as any the moſt jealous deſpotiſm could invent.}}
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