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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. From this complaisance the critics have been emboldened to assume a dictatorial power, and have so far succeeded that they are now become the masters,
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to 1 in or 1 to 2 cm indent). Some writers indent block quotations from the right margin as well. Block quotations are generally set off from the text that precedes and follows them by also adding extra space above and below the quotation and setting the text in smaller type. Barring
168:(8th edition, 2007) recommends using a block quotation when cited text is five lines or longer. Other sources set the threshold at four or five lines. The block quotation may also be used to distinguish shorter citations from original text, though strictly speaking this does not follow 195:. In addition, setting an indent based on an exact number of spaces may not be technically possible in a given word processing or electronic publishing application. In these situations, a measurement of distance rather than a number of spaces may be prescribed instead (for example, a 144:
Apart from quotation marks not being used to enclose block quotations, there are no hard-and-fast rules for the exact formatting of block quotations. To a large extent the specific format may be dictated by the method of publication (e.g.
221:. Often combinations of these methods are used, but are not necessary. Block quotations are also visually distinguished from preceding and following main text blocks by a white line or half-line space. For example: 136:
books, they could be repeated at the beginning of every line of a long quotation. When this practice was abandoned, the empty margin remained, leaving an indented block quotation.
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recommends using a block quotation when extracted text is 100 words or more, or approximately six to eight lines in a typical manuscript.
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in a written document that is set off from the main text as a paragraph, or block of text, and typically distinguished visually using
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were first cut in type during the middle of the sixteenth century, and were used copiously by some printers by the seventeenth. In
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A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago Style for students and researchers
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and have the assurance to give laws to those authors from whose predecessors they originally received them.
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Some guidelines suggest an indentation of five, ten, or fifteen spaces. However, five spaces in a
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specific requirements, the format of the block quotation will ultimately be determined by
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This article is about the text quotation style. For the HTML element, see
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guidelines. Use of the block quotation for shorter passages is a
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or smaller size font. This is in contrast to setting it off with
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that may or may not be acceptable depending on the situation.
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Index

Blockquote
blockquote element
MOS:BQ

quotation
indentation
typeface
quotation marks
The Chicago Manual of Style
typesetting
Bible
Renaissance
typeface
Italic type
roman
Quotation marks
Baroque
Romantic-period
handwritten
typewritten
electronic publishing
typeface
APA
MLA style
stylistic choice
proportional font
typewriter font
point size
aesthetics
typesetting

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