Template:RQ:Swift Free Thoughts

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Jonathan Swift's work Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs (1st edition, 1741). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • 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 the online version of the work.

• |2=, |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:Swift Free Thoughts|page=3|passage={{...}} Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for '''Pamphlets''' in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Swift Free Thoughts|3|{{...}} Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for '''Pamphlets''' in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.}}
• Result:
  • 1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. , Dublin, London: T. Cooper, , published 1741, →OCLC, page 3:

    […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.