Template:RQ:Howell Epistolae

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from James Howell's work Epistolae Ho-Elianae (3rd edition, 1655). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the HathiTrust Digital Library:

• Single-volume edition – this is the default version used by the template. Unfortunately, it is missing pages 121, 122, 478, 479 and 497–500. Use the versions below if quoting the content on those pages.
• Individual-volume edition:
  • Volume I (archived at the Internet Archive) – pages after page 308 are missing.
  • Volume II (archived at the Internet Archive).
  • Volume III (archived at the Internet Archive).
  • Volume IV (archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |version= – mandatory in some cases: use |version=1 if quoting from the individual-volume edition of the work. If this parameter is omitted, the template will use the single-volume edition.
• |1= or |volume= – mandatory in some cases:
  • If quoting from the single-volume edition of the work (the default), this parameter need not be used as the template automatically determines the volume number based on the page number.
  • If quoting from the individual-volume edition, please specify the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, |volume=I, |volume=II, |volume=III, or |volume=IV.
• |2= or |chapter= – the name given to the "chapter" (usually a letter) quoted from.
• |3= or |date=, or |year= – if the letter quoted from is dated at its end, specify the date of the letter using |3= or |date=. The template will convert the original Julian calendar date to a date according to the Gregorian calendar. If the letter is undated but the (approximate) year when it was written is known, |year= can be used to specify this, for example, like this: |year=c. 1645. If neither |date= nor |year= is specified, the template indicates "1655", the year when the work was published.
• |4= 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 determine the section number (I–VI) quoted from in volume I, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |5=, |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.

Single-volume edition

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Howell Epistolae|date=28 April 1645|chapter=LX. To Tho. Young, Esq|page=284|passage=Indeed 'tis very fitting that ''He'' or ''She'' ſhould have vvherevvith to ſupport both, according to their quality, at leaſt to '''keep the VVolf from the Door''', othervviſe 'tvvere a meer madneſs to Marry; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1645 May 8 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “LX. To Tho. Young, Esq”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren.  With a Fourth Volume of New Letters, Never Publish’d before.">…], 3rd edition, volume I, London: Humphrey Mosley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 284:

    Indeed 'tis very fitting that He or She ſhould have vvherevvith to ſupport both, according to their quality, at leaſt to keep the VVolf from the Door, othervviſe 'tvvere a meer madneſs to Marry;

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Howell Epistolae|date=5 June 1635|chapter=XXIX. To the Right Honourable Sir ''Peter Wichts'', Lord Ambassador at Constantinople.|pages=249–250|pageref=250|passage=It ſeems there is ſome angry Star that hath hung over this Buſineſs of the ''Palatinate'' from the beginning of theſe ''German'' VVars to this very Day, vvhich vvill too evidently appear, if one ſhould mark and '''deduce''' Matters from their firſt Riſe.}}
• Result:
  • 1635 June 15 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXIX. To the Right Honourable Sir Peter Wichts, Lord Ambassador at Constantinople.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren.  With a Fourth Volume of New Letters, Never Publish’d before.">…], 3rd edition, volume I, London: Humphrey Mosley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, pages 249–250:

    It ſeems there is ſome angry Star that hath hung over this Buſineſs of the Palatinate from the beginning of theſe German VVars to this very Day, vvhich vvill too evidently appear, if one ſhould mark and deduce Matters from their firſt Riſe.

Individual-volume edition

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Howell Epistolae|version=1|volume=III|chapter=XV. To Sir K. D. at Paris.|date=5 May 1647|page=25|passage=ad you ], you vvould have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a '''Beluin''' kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the vvhole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the ''Iſle of Dogs''; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude vvith other Moral Civilities vvhich ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good vvhile; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Howell Epistolae|version=1|III|XV. To Sir K. D. at Paris.|5 May 1647|25|ad you ], you vvould have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a '''Beluin''' kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the vvhole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the ''Iſle of Dogs''; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude vvith other Moral Civilities vvhich ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good vvhile; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1647 May 15 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XV. To Sir K. D. at Paris.”, in A Third Volume of Familiar Letters of a Fresher Date. , 3rd edition, volume III, London: Humphrey Mosley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section, page 25:

    ad you ſtaid, you vvould have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a Beluin kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the vvhole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the Iſle of Dogs; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude vvith other Moral Civilities vvhich ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good vvhile;