This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.
This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.
All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.
There are 25 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 592,719 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 23,708 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.
On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 92. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.
By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:
god, will, us, may, one, men, good, great, say, shall, make, now, man, church, much, things, must, christ, therefore, thing, well, first, saith, yet, also, law, made, holy, self, nature, words, lord, many, reason, think, doth, world, divine, viz, religion, people, par, gospel, min, doctrine, true, nothing, give, sin, never
Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A vindication of the Friendly conference, between a minister and a parishioner of his inclining unto Quakerism, &c. from the exceptions of Thomas Ellwood, in his pretended answer to the said conference / by the same author., The principles and practices of certain moderate divines of the Church of England (greatly mis-understood), truly represented and defended wherein ... some controversies, of no mean importance, are succinctly discussed : in a free discourse between two intimate friends : in three parts., and Libertas evangelica, or, A discourse of Christian liberty being a farther pursuance of the argument of the design of Christianity / by Edward Fowler ....
The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:
must needs, let us, early english, english books, tells us, christian liberty, books online, holy ghost, holy scriptures, christian religion, page images, creation partnership, text creation, god almighty, make us, take notice, divine nature, much less, give us, one another, blessed saviour, good things, jesus christ, among us, tell us, tcp schema, represented either, image sets, good men, characters represented, holy spirit, given us, will find, will make, true holiness, good works, will never, iesus christ, natural religion, must necessarily, good man, humane nature, one thing, edward fowler, man may, make men, sermon preached, told us, absolutely perfect, primitive christians
And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A defence of the Resolution of this case viz. whether the Church of England''s symbolizing so far as it doth with the Church of Rome makes it unlawfull to communion with the Church of England : in answer to a book intitiuled A modest examination of that resolution. Forms of prayer for a family. Composed by the late pious and learned John Worthington D.D. Published by the right reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, and A vindication of the Friendly conference, between a minister and a parishioner of his inclining unto Quakerism, &c. from the exceptions of Thomas Ellwood, in his pretended answer to the said conference / by the same author..
While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:
Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:
god, lord, church, tcp, law, world, spirit, saviour, religion, gospel, doctrine, people, holy, king, divine, christian, son, scriptures, men, man, laws, father, england, christ, apostle, tithes, souls, righteousness, reason, oath, love, holiness, good, glory, faith, conscience, communion, christianity, authority, argument, warrants, war, unity, undertaking, theophilus, text, substance, state, st., societies
And now word clouds really begin to shine:
Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be god, and The design of Christianity, or, A plain demonstration and improvement of this proposition viz. that the enduing men with inward real righteousness or true holiness was the ultimate end of our Saviour''s coming into the world and is the great intendment of his blessed Gospel / by Edward Fowler ... is most about that word.
If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:
If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:
Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:
Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":
men, things, man, thing, p., words, nothing, t, reason, self, viz, hath, time, people, nature, sin, part, sense, way, life, selves, religion, truth, others, works, account, doth, faith, text, theoph, scripture, philal, word, sins, name, power, one, author, world, none, means, work, order, place, instances, death, use, love, scriptures, mind
An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:
is, be, are, have, was, do, were, being, had, say, make, been, did, said, made, think, give, take, know, let, am, see, given, hath, done, believe, come, according, having, find, tell, put, taken, making, makes, prove, saith, called, concerning, needs, has, need, understand, call, read, doing, speak, set, doth, suppose
An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.
god, ◊, 〉, 〈, christ, church, c., lord, hath, law, par, min, gospel, saviour, divine, holy, doctrine, liberty, spirit, thou, christian, world, e., father, st., t., tcp, christians, oath, text, christianity, righteousness, paul, king, faith, religion, son, men, heaven, laws, mr., quakers, oaths, nature, s., goodness, power, book, england, chap
An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"
it, he, i, his, they, our, them, we, their, you, us, him, my, your, me, himself, themselves, her, its, she, thy, thee, ''s, one, theirs, ours, ye, yours, mine, itself, herself, ourselves, l, †, non, hers, ''em, ‖, yourselves, yourself, wretches, whereof, trodden, thyself, susceptione, punish''d, notwithstanding, nay, iu, ay
Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.
Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"
such, other, good, great, own, more, many, same, true, first, much, necessary, least, little, most, greatest, perfect, whole, several, greater, certain, better, wicked, best, evil, less, holy, free, plain, able, last, few, saith, false, due, excellent, general, particular, present, very, like, impossible, evident, sure, possible, natural, early, mere, lawful, short
not, so, most, as, now, more, then, very, therefore, well, also, too, much, only, never, far, thus, here, up, ever, even, onely, yet, first, again, all, no, that, is, out, together, at, indeed, less, there, whatsoever, in, thereof, still, truly, secondly, down, away, plainly, rather, especially, just, otherwise, over, once
There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.
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