Template:RQ:Carlyle Past and Present

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Thomas Carlyle's work Past and Present (American edition, May 1843); the 1st edition (London: Chapman and Hall, April 1843; →OCLC) is not currently available online. 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:

• |1= or |book= – the book number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |book=I to |book=IV. This parameter may be omitted if the page number is specified.
• |2= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |3= 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 determine the book number (I–IV) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |4=, |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:Carlyle Past and Present|chapter=Unworking Aristocracy|page=177|passage=Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they '''list'''; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths,—if they be pitiless infernal gods!}} (the template can determine the book number if the page is specified); or
  • {{RQ:Carlyle Past and Present|book=III|chapter=Unworking Aristocracy|page=177|passage=Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they '''list'''; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths,—if they be pitiless infernal gods!}}; or
  • {{RQ:Carlyle Past and Present|III|Unworking Aristocracy|177|Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they '''list'''; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths,—if they be pitiless infernal gods!}}
• Result:
  • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Unworking Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 177:

    Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths,—if they be pitiless infernal gods!

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Carlyle Past and Present|chapter=The Didactic|pages=292–293|pageref=293|passage=Not honoured, hardly even envied; only fools and the flunkey-species so much as envy me. I am conspicuous,—as a mark for curses and '''brickbats'''. What good is it?}}
• Result:
  • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Didactic”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope), pages 292–293:

    Not honoured, hardly even envied; only fools and the flunkey-species so much as envy me. I am conspicuous,—as a mark for curses and brickbats. What good is it?