Distant Reader - author-taylorJeremy-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 44 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 4,810,507 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 109,329 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 91. 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, may, man, us, will, shall, yet, therefore, great, men, church, must, sin, good, one, christ, things, holy, spirit, lord, made, every, first, law, also, make, religion, life, thing, without, many, now, much, reason, world, nothing, let, power, nature, faith, though, death, non, persons, words, like, never, time, give, onely

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books / by Jeremy Taylor ..., Symbolon theologikon, or, A collection of polemicall discourses wherein the Church of England, in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defended in many material points, against the attempts of the papists on one hand, and the fanaticks on the other : together with some additional pieces addressed to the promotion of practical religion and daily devotion / by Jer. Taylor ..., and Antiquitates christianæ, or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus as also the lives acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles : in two parts..

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

roman non, holy ghost, jesus christ, every man, let us, holy spirit, blessed saviour, every one, good man, every thing, god will, must needs, man may, primitive church, every day, holy jesus, lord jesus, holy life, take care, make us, good men, nothing else, shall never, wise men, original sin, give us, right hand, good things, many things, blessed lord, will make, christian religion, saint paul, christs body, holy sacrament, new testament, man shall, good life, lord god, catholick church, serve god, given us, tells us, non est, wise man, early english, english books, one thing, humane laws, one another

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A discourse of baptisme, its institution and efficacy upon all believers. Together with a consideration of the practise of the Church in baptizing infants of beleeving parents: and the practise justified by Jer: Taylor D.D. Symbolon theologikon, or, A collection of polemicall discourses wherein the Church of England, in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defended in many material points, against the attempts of the papists on one hand, and the fanaticks on the other : together with some additional pieces addressed to the promotion of practical religion and daily devotion / by Jer. Taylor ..., and A discourse concerning prayer ex tempore, or, by pretence of the spirit. In justification of authorized and set-formes of lyturgie..

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, church, lord, christ, religion, spirit, holy, scripture, christian, tcp, father, divine, roman, man, jesus, son, paul, law, ghost, world, king, faith, saviour, priest, prayer, nature, gospel, doctrine, devil, bishop, apostle, soul, prince, gods, churches, apostles, angels, thy, thing, sin, sacrament, minister, life, laws, great, conscience, authority, sect, saints, pope

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 A second part of The mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practical, in several tractates: wherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untyed, many dark places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies and errors refuted ... Whereunto are annexed, several letters of the same author, and Dr. Jeremy Taylor, concerning Original Sin. Together with a reply unto Dr. Hammonds vindication of his grounds of uniformity from 1 Cor. 14.40. By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Somersetshire. 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, thing, life, reason, nothing, power, religion, death, words, world, law, persons, time, nature, body, day, sins, way, people, duty, person, faith, p., hath, grace, part, self, spirit, others, state, case, soul, order, matter, mercy, love, word, repentance, prayer, laws, actions, truth, charity, place, heart, ad, conscience

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, was, have, were, had, do, did, made, make, being, let, does, said, give, say, been, done, take, concerning, according, hath, come, see, know, put, given, called, think, makes, am, receive, consider, 〈, doe, taken, find, believe, live, pray, gave, use, speak, blessed, set, taught, become, die, having

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, god, christ, church, s., lord, thou, c., spirit, hath, holy, jesus, de, l., bishop, heaven, n., paul, law, est, father, lib, doe, divine, bishops, r., gods, christian, apostles, faith, christians, rome, baptism, ●, doctrine, sacrament, saviour, gospel, son, ye, peter, conscience, council, religion, king, saint, adam, ghost

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, his, they, we, our, their, i, them, him, us, my, you, thy, me, your, her, himself, its, themselves, she, thee, ours, ye, one, theirs, mine, yours, us''d, itself, non, whereof, ourselves, hers, herself, myself, thou, elias, whosoever, 〈, ●, wh, tollit, ordayn''d, hic, ''s, ut, o, ne, ex

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, such, good, other, own, many, same, more, first, holy, little, much, true, necessary, new, certain, whole, greater, natural, non, roman, proper, wise, evil, spiritual, particular, old, greatest, best, -, present, better, excellent, full, publick, last, second, very, common, sufficient, least, eternal, false, right, dead, perfect, sure, most, poor, private

not, so, then, therefore, also, more, yet, now, is, as, that, very, only, never, onely, ever, up, most, well, even, too, much, first, indeed, here, out, thus, all, there, else, away, still, long, just, rather, sometimes, off, at, no, down, together, certainly, in, far, again, enough, whatsoever, often, forth, wholly

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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