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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's works Essays (1st edition, 1841) and Essays: Second Series (1st edition, 1844). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the works at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• Essays (contents).
• Essays: Second Series (contents; archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |series= – mandatory: the series of essays quoted from, either |series=1st or |series=2nd. If this is not specified, the template defaults to the First Series.
• |1= or |essay= – mandatory: the essay number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, or |essay=New England Reformers if quoting that essay in the Second Series.
• |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 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 link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be 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.

1st series

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Emerson Essays|essay=X|pages=257–258|pageref=257|passage=Literature is a point outside of our '''hodiernal''' circle, through which a new one may be described. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.}}
• Result:
  • 1841, R W Emerson, “Essay X. Circles.”, in Essays, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, pages 257–258:

    Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle, through which a new one may be described. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

2nd series

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Emerson Essays|series=2nd|essay=II|page=56|passage=We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never '''acquit''' the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Emerson Essays|series=2nd|II|56|We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never '''acquit''' the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.}}
• Result:
  • 1844, R W Emerson, “Essay II. Experience.”, in Essays: Second Series, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 56:

    We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.