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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 6 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 42464 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Mr. 2 war 2 illustration 2 State 2 London 2 John 2 Government 2 England 2 Captain 1 time 1 tax 1 state 1 smuggler 1 number 1 man 1 income 1 french 1 british 1 aboute 1 Zurborg 1 Xenophon 1 Treasury 1 Thomas 1 Stock 1 St. 1 Sir 1 Revenue 1 Preventive 1 North 1 Navy 1 Majesty 1 Lord 1 Legislature 1 King 1 January 1 House 1 Hellas 1 Harry 1 Governor 1 God 1 Germany 1 France 1 Exchange 1 English 1 Customs 1 Cove 1 Comptroller 1 Committee 1 Coastguard 1 Channel Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 757 war 754 time 692 man 528 year 354 day 340 smuggler 326 officer 325 vessel 315 boat 295 good 290 cruiser 290 country 286 money 274 capital 268 smuggling 265 cutter 210 business 208 part 203 ship 202 people 201 place 199 revenue 198 million 197 service 196 board 194 case 188 course 184 way 183 number 182 amount 181 craft 179 fact 174 power 171 taxation 166 thing 163 tax 161 hand 161 crew 160 debt 160 commander 158 income 158 duty 158 coast 157 order 157 bank 156 gold 155 rate 154 office 150 work 146 end Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2820 _ 868 | 239 Mr. 234 Government 206 State 186 Comptroller 181 Revenue 177 England 159 Customs 129 Board 127 � 120 Bank 117 London 116 God 113 Mr 113 Committee 100 House 96 Captain 92 Ã 90 John 88 English 82 Treasury 76 Lord 73 Custom 71 New 69 Germany 63 War 63 France 59 Sir 59 January 58 Admiralty 58 Act 57 America 56 Navy 56 King 55 St. 54 Preventive 54 Chancellor 53 Channel 51 York 50 Allies 48 Thomas 48 February 45 Governor 44 Legislature 44 Capital 43 William 42 Stock 42 Majesty 42 Commissioners Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2456 it 1781 i 1173 he 1094 they 891 we 539 them 449 me 369 she 350 him 295 you 218 us 206 her 122 themselves 86 myself 62 himself 61 itself 46 one 25 ourselves 15 herself 5 yourself 5 ours 3 theirs 3 his 2 yours 2 ''s 1 thy 1 thee 1 mys_elf 1 m_ind 1 ladders.--to 1 illuminators.--to 1 hers 1 futtocks.--to 1 ''em Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 11705 be 3378 have 745 do 705 make 592 go 526 take 460 come 432 say 432 find 403 see 362 think 329 give 277 pay 270 get 226 know 224 bring 218 put 177 carry 174 seem 172 run 171 work 171 show 167 follow 164 send 161 use 148 keep 146 leave 138 employ 136 call 131 hold 130 meet 130 begin 122 set 119 receive 115 ask 112 require 110 increase 108 become 104 raise 103 bear 101 want 99 provide 98 continue 97 need 97 look 96 produce 96 pass 96 let 92 allow 91 seize Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1439 not 840 so 487 other 485 more 470 very 430 then 417 great 385 up 380 only 355 also 347 as 336 much 332 out 315 now 299 well 297 same 285 good 265 many 256 such 244 large 243 first 225 little 219 still 217 again 206 long 204 most 187 even 182 on 181 about 178 small 174 there 163 far 162 possible 159 new 153 high 149 off 149 able 147 financial 144 just 138 too 138 certain 137 less 137 down 132 own 128 in 126 thus 125 however 125 away 120 present 120 foreign Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 93 least 62 good 52 most 38 great 17 high 14 bad 7 large 7 Most 6 small 6 near 6 early 5 wide 5 old 5 manif 5 low 5 late 5 full 4 simple 4 Least 3 young 3 slight 3 poor 3 hard 2 vile 2 impr 2 fine 2 fast 2 easy 2 clear 2 busy 1 wealthy 1 weak 1 thin 1 strong 1 straight 1 stern 1 short 1 safe 1 rich 1 nice 1 narrow 1 long 1 lively 1 less 1 keen 1 heavy 1 happy 1 furth 1 frank 1 eld Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 152 most 11 least 8 well 1 ¦ Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/5/6/17563/17563-h/17563-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/5/6/17563/17563-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 war is over 6 cruisers were also 4 cruisers were not 4 war goes on 3 men were also 3 war went on 2 _ had _ 2 _ had also 2 _ showing method 2 _ think _ 2 _ was about 2 _ was heaving 2 _ was quite 2 boat came up 2 boat was never 2 boat was not 2 capital is not 2 capital is proverbially 2 capital is scarce 2 capital is wealth 2 cruisers had not 2 government is prepared 2 millions is not 2 officers were not 2 people came down 2 smugglers were not 2 smuggling was so 2 vessels were not 2 war had not 2 war has already 2 war was over 1 _ am faithfull 1 _ being torbay 1 _ came on 1 _ came up 1 _ came yet 1 _ coming up 1 _ did not 1 _ did plenty 1 _ do _ 1 _ gave chase 1 _ getting up 1 _ got _ 1 _ had not 1 _ had only 1 _ left dover 1 _ made sail 1 _ made very 1 _ put about 1 _ showing concealments Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ showed no signs 1 capital is not subject 1 cruisers were not only 1 cutter had no right 1 cutters were not quite 1 goods were not yet 1 government was not able 1 man had no such 1 men did not actually 1 millions is not enough 1 millions is not nearly 1 officer had no wish 1 officers were not aware 1 officers were not solely 1 revenue was not proportionate 1 ships is not essential 1 ships were not altogether 1 smugglers had no need 1 smugglers knew no bounds 1 smugglers left no device 1 smugglers were not successful 1 smuggling is not even 1 smuggling was not merely 1 time had not yet 1 time is not merely 1 times is not quite 1 vessels were not actually A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 40008 author = Carter, Harry title = The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809 date = keywords = Captain; Carter; Cove; God; Harry; John; Lord; Mr.; aboute; man; time summary = Cove afishing and smuggling, and I think aboute 18 or 19 went at times, brother John, and I think I was allmoste like a dead man; thought little the time come, that dear woman took me to the _meeting_ house and put me unto him, but was afraid, as at that time I know very little aboute the and aboute this time I sent home for sume money, then thinking to set on So I still went on sume times thinking I was getting into knees I went to the man of God. He saw me coming, and asked me with a I think it was aboute this time that I left of drinking water, and I sume times come to see me, once in the course of two or three days. and keept allmoste all the time to myself, I went to bed aboute ten or id = 17563 author = Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble) title = King''s Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 date = keywords = Admiralty; Board; Captain; Channel; Coastguard; Customs; England; English; France; House; John; King; London; Majesty; Mr.; Navy; North; Preventive; Revenue; St.; Thomas; french; illustration; smuggler summary = [Illustration: REVENUE CRUISER CHASING SMUGGLING LUGGER. REVENUE CRUISER CHASING SMUGGLING LUGGER _Colour frontispiece_ with the old smuggling days, the Revenue cutters, and the Preventive Customs officers and commanders of cruisers, General Orders issued to vessels were not known as Revenue cutters at this time, but as Custom luggers manned by armed crews, who carried on a brisk smuggling trade actually on board or in the boats of the cruisers at that time was to keep the officers of the cruisers on board their vessels, and at sea, commander and mate of every Revenue vessel or boat bringing in a large Revenue cruisers, all being commanded by naval officers. service those officers and crews of the Revenue cruisers as by length land the crews of the vessels employed on the cruisers and Naval ships men were found on board, whereas smuggling vessels of this size (about id = 29252 author = Kahn, Otto H. title = War Taxation: Some Comments and Letters date = keywords = Government; income; tax; war summary = increase in the income tax rate, because of the damaging effect which very moderate income tax, men of enterprise will seek that country and excess profit tax on business during the war _merely_ to the extent as much as possible, apart from a _war profit excess_ tax. of income taxation during the war, together probably with a lowering of capital is not subject to income tax in Canada was, of course, well unduly high income taxation in this country and no, or only very years of the most exhausting war, has an income taxation schedule state to impose rates of income taxation as high as those fixed by profit taxes not in the first year of the war, but started on a quite rightly, be subjected to a large excess profits tax; that capital ought to be imposed a large excess war profits tax on the English id = 40531 author = Roberts, James A. (James Arthur) title = A Century in the Comptroller''s Office, State of New York, 1797 to 1897 date = keywords = Comptroller; Governor; January; Legislature; Mr.; State; illustration summary = the establishment of the office of Comptroller of the State of New York. States of the Union; but the duties of Comptroller are far broader, State, county and municipal officers, except the Governor, Chapter 21 of the Laws of 1797, which created the office of State original act creating the Comptroller''s office provided that it should Comptroller was made _ex-officio_ a member of the State Board of Comptroller he served three different periods as Secretary of State, to At no time in the history of the State has the Comptroller''s office been times elected Governor, and defeated in his fourth run for that office county, State Senator from the fourth district for the years 1824, 1825, For the forty years from 1840 to 1880 the Comptroller''s office was one duties in New York and the Comptroller''s office in Albany. The Comptroller was authorized the same year to appoint a id = 13045 author = Withers, Hartley title = War-Time Financial Problems date = keywords = Act; Allies; America; Bank; Capital; Chancellor; Committee; England; Exchange; Germany; Government; London; Sir; State; Stock; Treasury; british; war summary = Possibility of War--A Short Struggle expected--The Importance of Finance new machinery ought to be available as industrial capital when the war In fact, a great deal of the money now spent upon the war would being by the banks subscribing to Government securities, whether War If the Government is allowed to go on financing the war by increasing War--The Advantages of Direct Taxation--The Government follows the abroad, and selling securities to foreign nations, the warring country extent of the war''s needs the Government will use your money for individual; any work that the Government needed for the war would have Taxation in war-time, when industry''s Expenditure has called attention to the financing of the war by bank Government was not able to raise all the money needed for the war on the war roughly £18-1/2 millions--every Bank of England note issued That new credits will be needed for industry after war id = 1179 author = Xenophon title = On Revenues date = keywords = Athens; B.C.; Hellas; Xenophon; Zurborg; number; state summary = sites within the city walls as yet devoid of houses, supposing the state citizens of this state will contribute heartily to such an object, when to contribute, and possibly not a few states, in their desire to obtain the state possesses public warships, it would not be possible to secure to-day with the owners of slaves working in the mines; no one dreams a thousand men in the silver mines, (11) whom he let out to Sosias, a as the number of state-slaves contemplated for the purposes of the prevent the state from acquiring property in slaves, and Let the state then assign to each of these ten tribes an equal number of silver mines, the greater number of companies at work (38) the larger an over large number of slaves, with the result that the works will be money-making, the state may find war more profitable than peace?