Template:RQ:Spectator

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote the serial publication The Spectator, which was published in 1711, 1712 and 1714. It can be used to create a link to an online version of an 1853 edition of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

The template takes the following parameters:

• |author= – the author of the issue of The Spectator quoted from; this information, if known, is indicated in a footnote at the end of the issue. If the author is indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

If the parameter is omitted, the template indicates the authors as "Joseph Addison; Richard Steele ".

• |1= or |volume= – the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=VI. If this parameter is omitted, the template can determine the volume number from the issue number.
• |2= or |issue= – mandatory: the issue number quoted from in Arabic numerals. This parameter must be specified for the template to determine the volume number quoted from.
• |chapter= – the title of the issue quoted from, if there is one.
• |3= or |date= – mandatory: the date of the issue quoted from, like this: |date=1 January 1711. The dates were stated according to the Julian calendar and the calendar year ran from 25 March of one year to 24 March of the next. Therefore, the work uses the convention of indicating two years for dates between 1 January and 24 March. Do not follow this convention; instead of specifying such a date as |date=1 March 1710–1711, use |date=1 March 1711. The template automatically determines the date according to the Gregorian calendar for display as the actual date of the work, and formats the Julian calendar date for display as the date indicated on the issue.
• |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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |5=, |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:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=256|date=24 December 1711|page=278|passage=After all, it must be confessed, that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and '''sullies''' in its reputation; but if, by a mistaken pursuit after fame, or through human infirmity any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken and disappointed.}} (the template can determine the volume number from the issue number); or
  • {{RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|volume=III|issue=256|date=24 December 1711|page=278|passage=After all, it must be confessed, that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and '''sullies''' in its reputation; but if, by a mistaken pursuit after fame, or through human infirmity any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken and disappointed.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|III|256|24 December 1711|278|After all, it must be confessed, that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and '''sullies''' in its reputation; but if, by a mistaken pursuit after fame, or through human infirmity any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken and disappointed.}}
• Result:
  • 1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 256; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume III, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 278:

    After all, it must be confessed, that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and sullies in its reputation; but if, by a mistaken pursuit after fame, or through human infirmity any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken and disappointed.

    The spelling has been modernized.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=305|date=19 February 1712|page=16|passage=The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to '''connive''' with either eye, and, in a word, the whole practice of political grimace.}} (date originally indicated as 19 February 1711–1712)
• Result:
  • 1712 March 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, February 19, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 305; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 16:

    The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye, and, in a word, the whole practice of political grimace.

    The spelling has been modernized.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=165|date=8 September 1711|page=356|passage=The present war has so '''adulterated''' our tongue with strange words, that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern newspaper.}} (author known to be Addison)
• Result:
  • 1711 September 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SATURDAY, September 8, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 165; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume II, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 356:

    The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words, that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern newspaper.

    The spelling has been modernized.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Spectator|author=Hughes|issue=255|date=22 December 1711|pages=127–128|pageref=128|passage=A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues. Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and '''illustrious''' course of virtue, without any regard to our own good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.}}
• Result:
  • 1712 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), [John Hughes], “SATURDAY, December 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 255; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume III, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 127–128:

    A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise ad strife of tongues. Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and illustrious course of virtue, without any regard to our own good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.

    The spelling has been modernized.