Template:RQ:South Sermons

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Robert South's work Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (new edition, 1843, 4 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume I (contents).
• Volume II (contents).
• Volume III (contents).
• Volume IV (contents).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=IV.
• |2= or |sermon= – mandatory: the sermon number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The number starts from I in each volume.
• |chapter= or |sermonname= –
  • If quoting from the main part of the work, the name of the sermon quoted from, or the Bible verse that the sermon is based on.
  • If quoting from some other part of the work, the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |date=, or (|month= and) |year= – if the date of the sermon quoted from is known, use |date= to specify it; the date will be converted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Alternatively, if only the month and/or year, or year only, is known, use |month= and/or |year= to specify it.
• |3= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: 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:
  • Separate the first and last page numbers of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=iii–iv.
  • 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 link to an 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:South Sermons|volume=III|sermon=VII|sermonname=Part I. On the Manner of Administering Reproof|page=242|passage=And therefore the Roman orator, discoursing of '''scoptical''' urbanity, or jesting, how far it was allowable in speeches and pleadings, lays down an excellent rule, fit to be owned by the most Christian charity, that two things were by no means to be made the subject of jest; namely, great crimes, and great miseries; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:South Sermons|III|VII|sermonname=Part I. On the Manner of Administering Reproof|242|And therefore the Roman orator, discoursing of '''scoptical''' urbanity, or jesting, how far it was allowable in speeches and pleadings, lays down an excellent rule, fit to be owned by the most Christian charity, that two things were by no means to be made the subject of jest; namely, great crimes, and great miseries; {{...}}}}; or
• Result:
  • a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “Sermon VII. Part I. On the Manner of Administering Reproof.”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. , new edition, volume III, London: Thomas Tegg, , published 1843, →OCLC, page 242:

    And therefore the Roman orator, discoursing of scoptical urbanity, or jesting, how far it was allowable in speeches and pleadings, lays down an excellent rule, fit to be owned by the most Christian charity, that two things were by no means to be made the subject of jest; namely, great crimes, and great miseries; […]

    The spelling has been modernized.