Distant Reader - author-reynoldsEdward-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 40 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,178,194 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 29,454 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 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.

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, will, christ, man, may, men, one, shall, things, yet, lord, therefore, doth, hee, good, first, love, sinne, church, spirit, wee, power, though, heart, must, owne, bee, gods, non, great, much, de, make, life, word, like, nature, now, people, made, grace, without, faith, law, many, doe, psal, cor, onely

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., An explication of the hundreth and tenth Psalme wherein the severall heads of Christian religion therein contained; touching the exaltation of Christ, the scepter of his kingdome, the character of his subjects, his priesthood, victories, sufferings, and resurrection, are largely explained and applied. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne; by Edward Reynoldes sometimes fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, late preacher to the foresaid honorable society, and rector of the church of Braunston in Northhampton-shire., and Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication of the 14th chapter of the Prophet Hosea in seven sermons preached upon so many days of solemn humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ....

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

roman non, let us, wicked men, one another, english books, early english, may bee, every man, right hand, must needs, books online, wee may, every thing, set forth, many times, man may, wee must, god will, two things, wise man, saint paul, make us, page images, good things, one word, shall bee, hee will, take away, every one, sermon preached, take heed, bring forth, edward reynolds, holy ghost, text creation, creation partnership, holy spirit, apostle saith, will make, wee see, good works, telleth us, many things, one man, will never, many men, wee finde, lord will, may observe, god doth

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The wall & glory of Jerusalem, in a sermon preached in St. Pauls-Church London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the Honorable City of London, February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the Parliament and Common Council, and for preserving the City. By Edward Reynolds D.D. Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D., and Questions extracted out of the ordinance of Parliament to be propounded to receivers of the Lords Supper. Answers whereunto may be easily gathered out of the scriptures by such as do desire to be admitted..

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, lord, church, christ, roman, cor, tcp, psal, apostle, law, spirit, word, rom, prophet, covenant, prov, man, isa, grace, gospel, gods, faith, thing, sam, image, father, act, world, truth, sunne, sun, soule, scripture, saviour, power, non, matth, love, king, joh, isai, ier, glory, gal, conscience, city, chron, chap, state, sea

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 rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds. 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, heart, power, people, life, sinne, way, thing, nature, love, faith, world, hath, hee, glory, doth, grace, word, nothing, selves, others, cap, death, time, reason, body, ▪, truth, mercy, strength, selfe, hand, soule, words, knowledge, end, day, light, sin, owne, service, peace, hearts, spirit, name, enemies, psal, will

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, did, being, made, do, bee, see, let, hath, come, take, been, set, give, said, called, say, put, know, done, doth, according, given, bring, doe, having, am, makes, live, consider, receive, selfe, love, use, finde, stand, cast, go, suffer, observe, shew, serve, lay

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, god, christ, lord, church, ●, c., wee, cor, gods, de, hath, spirit, lib, law, l., rom, thou, owne, doe, psal, hee, heaven, bee, apostle, act, christs, gospell, word, prov, father, sinne, c, aug., tim, grace, heb, satan, covenant, mans, gen., love, matth, eph, david, sam, holy, prophet

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, our, we, they, him, them, their, us, i, my, you, thy, themselves, me, her, your, its, himself, thee, she, ours, mine, theirs, one, ye, yours, whereof, u, ourselves, f, hee, s, non, l, elias, vp, gods, ''s, 〈, trodden, severall, ay, †, á, à, z, yee, wr

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?"

other, good, great, many, such, more, own, non, same, -, roman, much, first, whole, able, holy, full, true, wicked, wise, strong, former, last, saith, dead, right, present, little, common, particular, greater, free, glorious, excellent, new, doth, divine, necessary, second, very, himselfe, high, most, better, like, humane, best, heavenly, greatest, wee

not, so, then, therefore, more, up, now, onely, first, yet, most, as, out, ever, thus, never, here, even, secondly, away, forth, too, much, only, still, thereof, very, well, together, there, also, rather, likewise, in, thirdly, all, that, lastly, indeed, is, off, over, before, again, thereby, long, sometimes, alone, namely, therein

Next steps

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