Distant Reader - author-whiteheadGeorge-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 67 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,443,082 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 21,538 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, christ, us, light, spirit, man, one, will, men, may, yet, life, lord, true, people, sin, truth, many, say, body, without, quakers, now, also, within, scriptures, shall, faith, words, things, law, power, holy, word, made, jesus, see, doth, church, though, good, called, scripture, saith, therefore, viz, world, john, must, pag

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The Christian-Quaker and his divine testimony vindicated by Scripture, reason, and authorities against the injurious attempts that have been lately made by several adversaries, with manifest design to rendor him odiously inconsistent with Christianity and civil society : in II parts. / The first more general by William Penn ; the second more particular by George Whitehead., The divinity of Christ and unity of the three that bear record in heaven with the blessed end and effects of Christ''s appearance, coming in the flesh, suffering and sacrifice for sinners, confessed and vindicated, by his followers, called Quakers : and the principal matters in controversie, between them, and their present opposers (as Presbyterians, Independants, &c.) considered and resolved, according to the scriptures of truth, and more particularly to remove the aspersions ... cast upon the ... Quakers ... in several books, written by Tho. Vincent, Will. Madox, their railing book, stil''d The foundation, &c, Tho. Danson, his Synopsis, John Owen, his Declaration / which are here examin''d and compared by G.W. ... ; as also, a short review of several passages of Edward Stillingfleet''s ... in his discourse of the sufferings of Christ''s and sermon preached before the King, wherein he flatly contradicts the said opposers., and An antidote against the venome of The snake in the grass, or, The book so stiled and the Christian people called Quakers vindicated from its most gross abuses and calumnies in certain reflections detecting the nameless author''s malice, outrage, and persecution against the said people : unto which is annex''d a brief examination of the author''s second book stil''d Satan dis-rob''d : also, some notice taken of his discourse for The divine institution of water-baptism..

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

light within, jesus christ, called quakers, every man, christ jesus, people called, early english, english books, holy ghost, books online, holy scriptures, holy spirit, among us, th moneth, christ within, lord jesus, page images, true light, creation partnership, text creation, must needs, divine light, new covenant, without us, george whitehead, every one, holy scripture, may see, man christ, let us, right hand, represented either, tcp schema, image sets, characters represented, new testament, th day, true church, eternal life, one another, true christ, true believers, within us, take notice, god will, divine nature, many things, new rome, brought forth, eternal word

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Christ ascended above the clouds his [brace] divinity--light in man, his being [brace] the Word in saints the only way and rule [brace] vindicated [brace] from the cloudy, erroneous, heretical, and blasphemous conceits of John Newman and his brethren : and the only rule of faith demonstrated for the general information of professours (and people) of all sorts, and the said J.N. his book stiled The light within &c. (with his manifest contradictions) both scripturally, historically, and rationally examined / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead. The son of perdition revealed by the brightness and light of the Son of God in his saints, and the preachers of his light within and their doctrines & principles (concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of salvation) vindicated and cleared ... / by the light of the Son of God in his servants Geo. Whitehead & Edw. Burroughs., and The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead..

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, spirit, lord, light, quakers, tcp, law, scriptures, people, church, truth, life, power, holy, body, man, son, doctrine, word, scripture, rule, priests, meeting, government, friends, blood, world, testimony, soul, righteousness, persons, oath, meetings, grace, gospel, father, faith, christian, book, way, thomas, swearing, swear, sufferings, salvation, resurrection, nation, men, love

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 principal controversies between the litteral presbyters of the Kirk of Scotland, and the illuminated members of the Church of Christ, called Quakers· Truly collected, stated and opened, in a particular reply (herein specified) for general information and undeceiving the deceived. By an earnest contender for the most holy faith, which was once delivered to the saints. G. W. 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?":

light, p., man, people, men, things, words, scriptures, sin, body, viz, scripture, time, hath, truth, others, self, work, blood, way, t, life, part, day, thing, death, end, name, works, doth, answ, faith, text, page, power, person, books, none, cause, reason, nature, thy, sins, order, heart, charge, saints, word, matter, place

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, was, are, have, were, do, being, said, had, did, say, been, made, see, called, make, has, come, given, know, believe, according, take, done, let, hath, deny, give, prove, ''s, having, own, came, put, taken, swear, am, concerning, set, saith, read, known, think, bring, appears, seeing, answer, saying, go

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, spirit, thou, c., lord, g., light, quakers, law, man, w., jesus, life, john, hath, church, 〉, ◊, faith, f., holy, pag, 〈, son, word, world, doctrine, power, truth, book, men, righteousness, j., r., flesh, father, t., christian, gospel, tcp, s., persons, heaven, body, divine, soul, testimony, grace, hast

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?"

his, he, it, they, their, them, i, we, him, us, our, you, thy, your, my, himself, me, themselves, her, its, thee, she, theirs, ye, one, ours, mine, yours, ''s, itself, thou, l, ourselves, myself, ‖, whosoever, ●, whereof, us''d, urg''d, u, s, oblig''d, himfelf, em, †, wythey, wh, vvith, uphimself

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, own, true, many, same, other, great, good, more, false, outward, first, much, spiritual, several, contrary, gross, perfect, divine, general, plain, manifest, holy, sufficient, little, whole, second, present, particular, saith, old, very, guilty, early, free, faithful, natural, new, wicked, real, only, right, evil, distinct, last, greater, better, full, english, eternal

not, so, then, now, also, as, only, yet, thus, up, more, therefore, here, very, never, well, out, again, forth, thereof, ever, even, therein, most, far, much, still, before, all, down, rather, first, away, in, truly, further, plainly, just, falsly, together, often, too, there, off, thereby, over, at, no, however, surely

Next steps

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