Distant Reader - author-goodwinThomas-freebo

Introduction

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 2021-05-23 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.

Size

There are 33 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,750,972 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 53,059 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.

Readability

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 97. 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.

Word Frequencies

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, christ, us, may, man, shall, men, things, yet, now, sin, one, lord, therefore, come, spirit, good, world, great, must, see, much, gods, heart, love, way, thing, doth, say, hee, though, first, word, make, grace, let, time, doe, many, wee, hearts, oh, know, take, saith, church, people, glory, heaven

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.], An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.], and Gospel-worship: or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in generall. And particularly in these 3. great ordinances, [brace] viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word. 2. Receiving the Lords Supper 3. Prayer. By Jeremiah Burroughes, the Gospel-preacher to two of the greatest congregations in England, viz. Stepney and Criple-gate, London..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

let us, jesus christ, holy ghost, god will, take heed, wicked men, roman non, god doth, will say, gods name, great deal, must needs, many times, saith god, shall see, bring forth, will make, shall find, every one, god may, holy duties, good things, shall come, worship god, will come, wee may, hee will, gods worship, may bee, may see, english books, early english, taken away, take away, one thing, wee must, man may, earthly things, make us, every thing, therefore let, make use, may come, sanctifie gods, gods love, wee see, will give, may know, books online, great things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The vvorld to come. Or, The kingdome of Christ asserted. In two expository lectures of Ephes. 1. 21, 22. verses. Prooving that between the state of this world as now it is, and the state of things after the day of judgement, when God shall be all in all: there is a world to come which is of purpose, and is a more especiall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be king, and wherein he shall more eminently reign. / Preached by Mr. Tho: Goodwin many years since, at Antholins, London. Published for the truths sake. Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D., and The reasons of the Dissenting Brethren against the third proposition, concerning presbyterial government· Humbly presented..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

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, christ, lord, spirit, church, word, father, apostle, scripture, tcp, gods, law, ghost, saints, man, king, gospel, christian, psal, churches, soul, grace, worship, thing, son, roman, religion, kingdome, kingdom, holy, hee, gospell, faith, covenant, bee, angels, world, wee, vine, thou, testament, sonne, sinne, prophet, people, obs, note, love, land, israel

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

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 Christians portion Wherein is unfolded the unsearchable riches he hath by his interest in Christ. Whom injoying hee possesseth all things else. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher to the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, and master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by T.G. and P.N. 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:

Noun & Verbs

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?":

man, men, things, sin, world, heart, way, thing, time, hearts, love, people, grace, glory, life, hath, word, nothing, hee, others, day, selves, soule, doth, power, end, soul, part, place, faith, nature, times, spirit, reason, death, name, mercy, thoughts, saints, sinne, work, body, scripture, evil, children, comfort, strength, waies, gods, earth

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, were, come, do, had, see, say, make, let, ''s, did, know, take, made, hath, said, been, being, comes, give, set, think, done, go, put, am, bring, makes, bee, doe, find, live, consider, doth, look, love, given, taken, came, according, cast, get, called, brought, shew, gives

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, christ, thou, lord, spirit, hath, gods, 〉, ◊, 〈, wee, heaven, church, gospel, doe, law, obs, word, c., hee, father, jesus, holy, yea, christs, pag, hast, owne, grace, king, christians, ghost, christian, bee, israel, kingdom, david, mans, apostle, chap, paul, text, againe, covenant, son, angels, prophet, moses, cor, psal

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, they, he, his, you, we, i, them, their, him, our, us, your, my, thy, me, themselves, thee, himself, her, its, she, ours, one, mine, theirs, yours, ye, ourselves, ''s, hee, thou, gods, vp, ib, yee, ●, whosoever, whence, vvith, vnto, ts, non, l, yourselves, y, wr, wil, whereof, whatthey

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

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?"

great, good, such, other, many, more, much, own, first, same, little, true, saith, holy, wicked, glorious, new, able, greater, greatest, second, full, outward, very, dead, better, doth, strong, present, non, best, particular, -, roman, earthly, whole, high, excellent, former, least, poor, sweet, last, infinite, ready, himselfe, gracious, right, willing, common

not, so, then, now, therefore, more, up, here, thus, yet, out, as, never, there, first, much, very, ever, only, even, that, is, most, also, in, away, forth, indeed, off, together, well, onely, still, before, secondly, all, on, rather, certainly, too, further, else, again, whatsoever, down, especially, long, hence, sometimes, no

Next steps

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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