Template:RQ:Watts Improvement

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Isaac Watts's work The Improvement of the Mind (1st edition, 1741). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |paragraph= – the paragraph number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |2= 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 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.

• |3=, |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:Watts Improvement|chapter=The Socratical Way of Disputation|paragraph=V|page=172|passage=he Queriſt muſt not proceed too ſvviftly tovvards the Determination of his Point propos'd, that he may vvith more Eaſe, vvith '''brighter''' Evidence, and vvith ſurer Succeſs dravv the Learner on to aſſent to thoſe ''Principles'' ſtep by ſtep, from vvhence the ''final Concluſion'' vvill naturally ariſe.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Watts Improvement|The Socratical Way of Disputation|paragraph=V|172|he Queriſt muſt not proceed too ſvviftly tovvards the Determination of his Point propos'd, that he may vvith more Eaſe, vvith '''brighter''' Evidence, and vvith ſurer Succeſs dravv the Learner on to aſſent to thoſe ''Principles'' ſtep by ſtep, from vvhence the ''final Concluſion'' vvill naturally ariſe.}}
• Result:
  • 1741, I[saac] Watts, “The Socratical Way of Disputation”, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: , London: James Brackstone, , →OCLC, paragraph V, page 172:

    [T]he Queriſt muſt not proceed too ſvviftly tovvards the Determination of his Point propos'd, that he may vvith more Eaſe, vvith brighter Evidence, and vvith ſurer Succeſs dravv the Learner on to aſſent to thoſe Principles ſtep by ſtep, from vvhence the final Concluſion vvill naturally ariſe.