Distant Reader - subject-prideAndVanity-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 2021-05-24 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.

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Size

There are 10 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 436,990 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 43,699 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 94. 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, man, us, may, christ, men, yet, sinne, shall, one, things, now, good, must, much, heart, first, make, though, therefore, law, lord, owne, great, doth, gods, wee, spirit, nature, many, like, life, bee, hee, faith, doe, world, made, glory, let, love, thing, power, word, grace, every, without, de, selfe

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life of Christ. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne: by Edward Reynoldes, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford., The vanity of mans present state proved and applyed in a sermon on Psalm 39.5. With divers sermons of the saints communion with God, and safety under his protection, in order to their future glory, on Psalm 73. 23, 24, 25, 26. By the late able and faithful minister of the Word John Wilson, and The vanity of childhood & youth wherein the depraved nature of young people is represented and means for their reformation proposed : being some sermons preached in Hand-Alley at the request of several young men, to which is added a catechism for youth / by Daniel Williams..

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

let us, roman non, young people, every man, god will, may bee, present state, young man, right hand, must needes, wee may, saint paul, must needs, wee must, man may, long haire, english books, early english, wicked men, earthly things, make us, will make, books online, every one, thine owne, young ones, originall sinne, two things, every thing, bring forth, hee will, holy ghost, will never, good men, shall bee, god himselfe, god doth, one another, good things, one word, may make, page images, many times, none like, tells us, will bee, text creation, let vs, creation partnership, will come

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Anthropolatria; or The sinne of glorying in men, especially in eminent ministers of the gospel. Wherein is set forth the nature and the causes of this sinne, as also the many pernicious effects which at all times this sinne hath produced, and with which the church of Christ is still infected. With some serious disswasives from this sinne, and directions to prevent the infection thereof. A discourse usefull, and in these times very seasonable. / By John Tombes, B.D. and preacher of Gods word at the Temple. Logoi eukairoi, essayes and observations theologicall & morall. Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered, and characteriz''d: divers cautions and directions præscribed for the avoidance of their infection, and the promotion of their cure. Together with some meditations & prayers adjoyn''d, serving to the same purpose. / By a student in theologie., and The vanity of mans present state proved and applyed in a sermon on Psalm 39.5. With divers sermons of the saints communion with God, and safety under his protection, in order to their future glory, on Psalm 73. 23, 24, 25, 26. By the late able and faithful minister of the Word John Wilson.

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, man, tcp, lord, pride, christ, world, gods, cor, church, thing, spirit, soule, roman, psal, prophet, people, life, law, king, good, faith, christians, apostle, youth, young, word, vnlawfull, vanity, vanitie, vaine, truth, thou, tei, teachers, sunne, sun, state, soul, son, sense, sea, scripture, saviour, satan, salvation, saints, rule, rom, reader

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 vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, imprudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis. 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, sinne, heart, nature, thing, glory, life, way, people, faith, power, time, nothing, state, world, hath, others, strength, sin, selves, cap, death, reason, selfe, doth, day, word, hand, vanity, body, spirit, owne, hee, love, none, truth, grace, promises, soule, lusts, words, sinnes, hearts, ▪, flesh, part, self, end

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, had, make, do, did, made, let, being, see, take, come, say, bee, been, know, hath, am, set, give, ''s, put, said, makes, done, consider, live, think, doe, bring, has, doth, given, according, love, go, selfe, comes, look, stand, shew, hold, cut, pray, grow, find

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, christ, 〈, thou, ●, lord, law, gods, wee, hath, c., rom, owne, doe, spirit, cor, de, lib, sinne, l., heaven, hee, grace, haire, est, pride, apostle, word, psal, church, bee, world, creature, mans, faith, saint, philot, paul, man, david, christians, t, loue, pet, tim, christs, e, f

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, his, he, they, i, their, them, our, him, we, us, you, my, thy, me, your, thee, themselves, its, himself, her, she, ours, ''s, one, mine, vp, theirs, ye, yours, u, f, thou, l, hee, whereof, vnto, s, yee, vvhat, ts, tollit, pe, ourselves, non, inamour, 〈, á, z, yourself

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?"

such, good, great, other, many, more, much, same, own, first, full, young, whole, true, little, present, saith, non, able, wicked, vain, holy, very, last, best, better, -, roman, former, right, strong, most, high, long, dead, new, greater, particular, like, least, doth, few, earthly, wise, apt, old, common, sure, greatest, false

not, so, then, now, more, therefore, yet, up, as, first, out, onely, thus, never, here, ever, most, secondly, even, much, too, very, still, away, well, only, forth, in, there, all, thirdly, off, thereof, together, long, else, also, rather, sometimes, over, far, that, likewise, before, is, indeed, no, down, enough, lastly

Next steps

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