Distant Reader - author-tillotsonJohn-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 52 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,493,551 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 28,722 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 90. 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, us, men, will, man, may, great, shall, things, good, one, world, religion, yet, much, make, reason, thing, life, first, now, church, nature, many, every, sin, without, therefore, must, made, another, true, lord, doth, way, faith, scripture, time, nothing, say, evil, text, take, selves, others, christ, saviour, doctrine, happiness, power

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Several discourses upon the attributes of God viz. Concerning the perfection of God. Concerning our imitation of the divine perfections. The happiness of God. The unchangeableness of God. The knowledge of God. The wisdom, glory, and soveraignty of God. The wisdom of God, in the creation of the world. The wisdom of God, in his providence. The wisdom of God, in the redemption of mankind. The justice of God, in the distribution of rewards and punishments. The truth of God. The holiness of God. To which is annexed a spital sermon, of doing good. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the sixth volume; published from the originals, by Raph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his grace., The remaining discourses, on the attributes of God Viz. his Goodness. His mercy. His patience. His long-suffering. His power. His spirituality. His immensity. His eternity. His incomprehensibleness. God the first cause, and last end. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the seventh volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace., and Sermons preach''d upon several occasions. By John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The fourth volume.

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

tells us, let us, one another, divine nature, christian religion, every man, holy ghost, every one, good men, english books, early english, jesus christ, another world, many times, oral tradition, make us, books online, eternal life, blessed saviour, two things, god will, must needs, man may, creation partnership, text creation, good man, page images, men may, christian church, sermon preached, good life, divine revelation, wise man, take away, john tillotson, holy spirit, wicked men, every thing, god doth, many things, rich man, given us, much less, great many, shall endeavour, image sets, characters represented, represented either, will never, whole world

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A letter written to my Lord Russel in Newgate, the twentieth of July, 1683. A copy of Arch-Bishop Tillotson''s letter to his friend, and A sermon concerning the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. preached before the Queen at Whitehall, April 9., 1693..

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, tcp, lord, world, religion, church, saviour, man, reason, scripture, doctrine, life, text, providence, apostle, men, nature, gospel, christian, spirit, son, sins, law, duty, divine, sin, salvation, people, nation, christ, wisdom, truth, sacrifice, power, justice, holy, ghost, virgins, vice, trinity, thing, souls, sacrament, rule, reputation, repentance, profession, perfection, mercy, lamps

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 Several discourses upon the attributes of God viz. Concerning the perfection of God. Concerning our imitation of the divine perfections. The happiness of God. The unchangeableness of God. The knowledge of God. The wisdom, glory, and soveraignty of God. The wisdom of God, in the creation of the world. The wisdom of God, in his providence. The wisdom of God, in the redemption of mankind. The justice of God, in the distribution of rewards and punishments. The truth of God. The holiness of God. To which is annexed a spital sermon, of doing good. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the sixth volume; published from the originals, by Raph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his grace. 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?":

men, man, things, thing, reason, religion, way, life, nothing, selves, others, time, sin, hath, scripture, world, end, nature, sins, words, self, part, doth, mind, truth, happiness, kind, sense, power, day, t, evil, work, people, matter, death, argument, faith, purpose, care, course, knowledge, manner, case, times, persons, place, word, minds, consideration

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, had, make, been, being, made, did, say, take, said, come, give, let, believe, know, think, done, consider, hath, does, see, concerning, put, according, says, tells, given, find, speak, am, set, bring, go, live, having, understand, shew, seems, taken, makes, brought, prove, fall, gives

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, world, 〈, church, lord, men, saviour, hath, christ, man, thou, religion, doctrine, divine, nature, text, gospel, faith, st., heaven, christian, son, law, holy, ye, c., christians, life, tcp, john, goodness, spirit, de, mr., mankind, providence, father, apostle, christianity, duty, wisdom, repentance, sin, jesus, paul, rome, power, jews

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, our, we, his, they, them, i, us, their, him, you, himself, themselves, my, me, thy, your, its, thee, her, one, she, theirs, ye, ours, mine, ''s, whereof, itself, ourselves, thou, yours, em, us''d, ay, 〈, à, whosoever, unconquer''d, thyself, th, sat, s, rhey, mself, montani, herself, elias, dufour

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, other, such, own, many, true, more, same, first, much, necessary, greater, several, greatest, best, wise, particular, present, general, plain, little, whole, natural, better, last, wicked, perfect, eternal, certain, able, common, evil, sufficient, very, proper, apt, happy, possible, new, bad, contrary, due, full, ready, least, most, capable, clear, second

not, so, very, more, then, now, most, therefore, only, as, yet, much, up, ever, never, is, that, well, here, first, likewise, far, even, thus, out, always, down, also, certainly, away, plainly, indeed, again, too, rather, off, especially, long, just, secondly, all, in, once, together, still, often, over, otherwise, else, namely

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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