This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Ruskin's work Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published Chiefly in the Daily Newspapers,—1840–1880 (1st edition, 1880). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or |volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either |volume=I
or |volume=II
.|2=
or |chapter=
– the name of the chapter quoted from.|date=
–
|date=
to specify the date when the letter quoted from was published in the format 23 September 1843
or September 23, 1843
, which will be displayed as "1843 September 1843".|written=1
or |written=yes
. This will add "(date written)" after the date. If a date of writing is uncertain requires special formatting, specify |noformat=1
or |noformat=yes
and use wikitext markup to format the date; for example: |date='''1853''' 26
.|month=
and) |year=
– if only the month and year, or year alone, of the letter quoted from is known, use |month=
and/or |year=
to specify this information.The dates when the letters in the work were written and published are indicated in tables in the volumes:
(These are from an American edition of the work, as the tables in the British edition have missing text at the margins.)
|3=
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. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
|pages=10–11
or |pages=x–xi
.|pageref=
to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|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.{{RQ:Ruskin Arrows|volume=I|chapter=Art Criticism|date='''1843''' December? (date written; published '''1844''' January)|noformat=1|page=21|passage=People continually forget that there is a ''separate'' '''public''' for every picture, and for every book. Appealed to with reference to any particular work, the '''public''' is that class of persons who possess the knowledge which it presupposes, and the faculties to which it is addressed. With reference to a new edition of ]'s ], the "'''public'''" means little more than the Royal Society. With reference to one of ]'s poems, it means all who have hearts.}}
; or{{RQ:Ruskin Arrows|I|Art Criticism|date='''1843''' December? (date written; published '''1844''' January)|noformat=1|21|People continually forget that there is a ''separate'' '''public''' for every picture, and for every book. Appealed to with reference to any particular work, the '''public''' is that class of persons who possess the knowledge which it presupposes, and the faculties to which it is addressed. With reference to a new edition of ]'s ], the "'''public'''" means little more than the Royal Society. With reference to one of ]'s poems, it means all who have hearts.}}
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