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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 17 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10956 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 66 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Mr. 11 man 10 time 10 great 7 Dr. 6 life 6 Shakespeare 6 Pope 6 London 6 Johnson 5 like 5 Sir 5 England 4 work 4 word 4 play 4 mind 4 long 4 english 4 Latin 4 Greek 4 French 4 France 4 English 3 year 3 sense 3 new 3 leave 3 hope 3 find 3 day 3 University 3 Theobald 3 St. 3 Spaniards 3 Spain 3 Milton 3 Hungary 3 God 3 Europe 3 Boswell 2 world 2 want 2 thy 2 spanish 2 shall 2 scene 2 read 2 power 2 pleasure Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4718 man 3481 time 2111 life 1984 part 1969 power 1880 lord 1523 day 1521 nation 1516 reason 1429 nothing 1377 year 1369 country 1338 mind 1290 house 1280 opinion 1177 law 1149 place 1144 word 1124 other 1121 author 1083 nature 1017 thing 1007 state 977 war 964 work 951 world 926 people 918 knowledge 882 pleasure 856 danger 856 art 847 enemy 845 character 842 age 837 interest 833 king 829 peat 816 use 811 hand 776 number 776 effect 771 degree 769 bill 752 friend 738 language 736 sense 726 force 726 advantage 720 name 719 writer Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 19168 _ 1347 Mr. 708 Johnson 708 Dr. 662 Shakespeare 565 | 502 sir 447 Sir 437 lord 326 thou 320 France 317 Milton 302 English 297 French 293 Dryden 275 Britain 265 Spaniards 253 Europe 246 Lord 244 c. 241 Warburton 235 Pope 219 senate 212 England 211 London 207 et 198 Footnote 194 John 194 Addison 189 Hanover 177 Spain 172 Hungary 169 SATURDAY 157 Drake 153 Austria 150 Greek 147 Cowley 145 St. 144 God 143 Boswell 140 i. 139 America 137 Charles 126 Theobald 125 Henry 124 Mrs. 122 est 121 de 116 Waller 114 William Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 16796 it 14251 he 11990 i 8817 they 6341 we 4562 them 4441 him 2502 us 2217 me 1912 himself 1817 you 1374 she 1230 themselves 680 her 547 myself 440 itself 413 ourselves 168 thee 126 herself 105 one 70 yourself 63 mine 34 ours 23 thyself 17 his 15 yours 15 theirs 7 thy 5 ii 4 ''em 3 yourselves 3 ii.i.27 3 ''s 2 ye 2 th 2 hers 2 --they 1 tollit 1 savage,/take 1 said--_you 1 q]they 1 madam,--i 1 jus 1 iv.vii.3 1 iv.vi.281 1 iv.v.238 1 iv.v.147 1 iv.iii.9 1 iii.v.227 1 iii.--_peat Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 72480 be 22259 have 3861 make 3578 do 2812 find 2573 know 2346 think 2312 give 2046 say 1927 see 1581 take 1453 consider 1267 appear 1264 produce 1204 seem 1161 read 1136 write 1117 leave 1047 discover 990 tell 990 come 988 suppose 936 receive 879 hear 875 suffer 870 pass 864 raise 862 show 862 believe 860 call 855 let 854 expect 841 speak 823 lose 820 hope 799 observe 799 go 763 require 723 use 707 bring 695 learn 685 form 672 live 671 become 668 follow 657 endeavour 652 imagine 639 begin 631 obtain 629 want Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 15078 not 4513 more 4199 so 3811 only 3409 great 3332 other 2660 such 2657 very 2596 own 2557 therefore 2544 now 2448 much 1919 long 1911 well 1900 most 1891 first 1874 many 1827 same 1758 never 1735 always 1697 little 1622 then 1597 yet 1488 perhaps 1440 new 1377 too 1285 necessary 1274 less 1206 however 1171 present 1142 thus 1138 last 1123 often 1108 good 1058 sometimes 1029 general 1003 easily 975 once 962 common 935 as 916 indeed 894 far 887 few 883 up 870 out 792 high 778 here 772 least 755 still 746 different Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 698 least 385 most 338 good 272 great 245 high 77 strong 66 low 55 bad 42 early 34 wise 34 near 33 mean 32 noble 28 l 26 j 26 eld 23 warm 20 manif 18 bright 18 Most 17 small 17 slight 16 long 16 large 16 close 15 remote 15 dear 14 deep 13 rich 13 fair 12 loud 12 heavy 11 young 11 weak 11 easy 10 late 10 bl 9 old 9 happy 9 dr 8 soft 8 able 7 vile 7 short 7 safe 7 rough 7 exact 7 clear 7 cheap 6 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1513 most 75 well 73 least 11 worst 3 long 2 lest 1 truest 1 safest 1 near 1 jest 1 infest 1 highest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 67 _ is _ 54 nothing is more 26 _ is here 22 _ is not 13 _ are _ 8 man is not 7 _ see _ 6 _ be _ 6 _ be not 6 _ do _ 6 _ had _ 6 _ is only 6 _ made _ 6 man is more 6 man is willing 6 nothing is so 6 nothing was necessary 6 power is not 6 time is now 6 time was now 6 world is not 5 _ do not 5 _ does _ 5 _ has here 5 _ is now 5 _ is probably 5 _ is rather 5 _ make _ 5 _ read _ 5 man has yet 5 man is so 5 man was ever 5 mind is not 5 nothing is necessary 5 nothing is now 5 nothing was more 5 works are not 4 _ does not 4 _ done _ 4 _ has _ 4 _ is ever 4 _ is right 4 _ is so 4 _ known _ 4 _ make good 4 _ seems here 4 _ take _ 4 _ were _ 4 country is not 4 law is ineffectual Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 _ has no sense 3 world is not yet 2 _ be not captives 2 _ has no such 2 _ is no very 2 _ is not _ 2 _ is not merely 2 _ is not necessary 2 man had not yet 2 nature gives no man 2 place are not essential 2 power is not accurately 2 time is not easy 2 words have not only 1 _ are not always 1 _ be not _ 1 _ do no hurt 1 _ does not properly 1 _ give no certain 1 _ had no _ 1 _ had no other 1 _ has no authority 1 _ has no meaning 1 _ have no great 1 _ have no name 1 _ have no particular 1 _ having no due 1 _ is no great 1 _ is no more 1 _ is not act 1 _ is not as 1 _ is not innate 1 _ is not now 1 _ is not only 1 _ is not properly 1 _ is not speedy 1 _ is not very 1 _ seem not equally 1 _ was no fault 1 _ was not absolute 1 _ were not _ 1 author is no longer 1 author is not easily 1 author is not wholly 1 author thought not fit 1 authors are not always 1 countries do not commonly 1 country has not yet 1 country is no longer 1 country were not less Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 193608 10352 190407 10351 178937 10350 164350 9823 162292 11768 156334 12050 155428 11397 145465 10835 83840 15566 63734 7780 56799 2064 51158 26142 22471 5429 9668 5430 8913 13350 24218 577 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 88.0 7780 87.0 15566 79.0 10835 77.0 13350 76.0 26142 69.0 2064 69.0 9823 65.0 12050 63.0 5429 63.0 11768 60.0 11397 57.0 10350 50.0 5430 48.0 10351 43.0 10352 24218 577 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10350 present state of man necessary, they may supply some motives to content. in America, with equal power and greater spirit, having lost nothing by power; and the great designs of a king, whose wisdom they had so long Spaniards, and continues, to this day, a place of great wealth and During the time of Charles the second, the power of France was every day lived here, in no great numbers, a long time, neither molesting their Nor were the French the only nation by which this great man was Thus died Boerhaave, a man formed by nature for great designs, and The king, having spent some time in admiring the multitude of new Having thus passed a year at Leyden with great advantage, he returned not answer the time and pains of learning them; yet had so great a great part of the country, making observations upon all that appeared 10351 In the mean time, sir, it may be proper for the house to expedite the Mr. BURREL then spoke as follows:--Sir, if this law be necessary at any The law ought, sir, in my opinion, not to commence till time is allowed danger be true, of far more importance, shall form the new forces with Should any man assert, my lords, that the army ought to be formed into a With regard, sir, to the present war, I know not how the nation can be For this reason, sir, I think it necessary to observe, that the intent Nothing is more evident, sir, than that the natural power of the nation Lord GAGE spoke to this effect:--Sir, it is well known that by the laws Lord BALTIMORE spoke thus:--Sir, it appears to me of no great importance If the sailor, sir, is exposed to greater dangers in time of war, is not 10352 produced, in the house of lords, a debate, in which the greatest men of The nation, my lords, in the mean time, justly applies for redress to Let us remember, my lords, that power is supported by opinion, and that I hope, my lords, I shall be easily forgiven for observing, that this is executing the office of lord high admiral of Great Britain for the time lords, as I doubt not but I shall be able to justify the measures Even at this time, my lords, was I sufficiently confident of the power my lords, if no private man ought to be censured without just reason, commons to the house of lords, produced there very long and serious This, my lords, I hope I shall never see the state of my own country: In the present war, my lords, if the number of our people were equal 10835 It may be said, the death of Dr. Johnson kept the public mind in Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet, and, I have great hopes, will It is said, upon good authority, that Johnson once received from lord said Mr. Boswell, "that I am come to London, at a bad time, when great know that I cannot help coming from Scotland." "Sir," said Johnson, "no on every Wednesday evening; and, to serve a man whom he had known in Mr. Thrale''s household for many years, the place was fixed at his house, in writer''s end." Johnson went to see men and manners, modes of life, and "You know," said the prince, "how little my life has made me acquainted "Great prince," said Imlac, "I shall speak the truth; I know not one of your mind," said Imlac, "with other hopes or fears than reason may 11397 have great pleasure in listening to the conversation of learned men, A sober man like thee to change his life! nature protracted the days in summer, lest ladies should want time to combinations of life, that a good man may receive favours from one, who, Such is the life of squire Bluster; a man in whose power fortune has into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life single man; how little vacancy is left in the world for any new object As little things grow great by continual accumulation, I hope you will I have in this view of life considered man as actuated only by natural pass a long interval of my life in solitude, as a man suspected of No man can imagine the course of his own life, or the conduct of the The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with 11768 Words of general use will be known by having no sign of particularity, every people arises from its authors: whether I shall add any thing by and time with so little care: no books could be left in hands so likely to the nature of his work, which required the use of the common writers, in his least perfect works; art had so little, and nature so nature, till the books of one age gain such authority, as to stand in correction or explanation; but that our author''s works might appear like our time it be sufficient, was then of no great authority; for all the only be so far known as the author shall think fit to discover it. The great art of life is to play for much, and to stake little; which To end this work in an useful manner, let us examine, in a few words, 12050 is no time of life, in which men for the most part seem less to expect man thinks the day coming, in which he shall be gratified with all his generally the life of man, that he is pleased to think on the time when dangers which beset the life of man, we shall be able to reach the time man has like me lost an Euryalus, has known a friend die with happiness great part of that life, of which every man knows and deplores the are placed in an evil world, to exhibit publick examples of good life; trifling away life: every man looks on the occupation or amusement of man who does not claim the power of wasting that time which is the right business; for, says he, _when a man advances in life, he loves to time be put to every thing great as to every thing little; that to life 13350 against a knowledge of their author''s life, "the pages of _The Rambler_ Johnson proceeded to put them to original uses, generating with them new And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Few know the toiling States man''s Fear or Care, Yet hope not Life from Grief or Danger free, Still drops some Joy from with''ring Life away; A Man that has formed this Habit of turning every new Object to his Spring of Life; to acquire, while their Minds may be yet impressed with one great Transaction, afford few Lessons applicable to private Life, I have often thought that there has rarely passed a Life of which a Man has in the mighty Mass of the World great Numbers in the same The Life of _Thuanus_ is, with great Propriety, said by its Author to have Life be delayed till all Interest and Envy are at an End, and all Motives 15566 I.iii.129 (23,5) It favours, like the work] The old edition reads, III.ii.226 (70,4) For I have neither writ] The old copy reads instead of II.iii.21 (153,6) thy angel/Becomes a Fear] Mr.Uptan reads, III.xiii.1 (200,3) Think, and die] [Hanmer: Drink] This reading, offered Hanmer follows Theobald; Dr. Warburton retains the old reading. IV.iii.153 (359,3) mens'' spurring] Hanmer reads _sparring_, properly IV.iii.398 (373,6) More things like men?] This line, in the old edition, IV.iii.419 (373,7) you want much of meat] [T: of meet] Such is Mr. Theobald''s emendation, in which he is followed by Dr. Warburton. V.iii.4 (393,2) Some beast read this; here does not live a man] [W: III.iv.177 (231,8) which you''ll make him know] This is HANMER''s reading. Mr. Lewis Theobald, for want of knowing the meaning of the old reading I.iii.66 (24,4) It is an honour] The modern editors all read, _it is an III.ii.103 (245,4) nor mine now] A man''s words, says the proverb, are 2064 We left this little island with our thoughts employed awhile on the Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited. this island lived from the present time, is afforded by the stone heads table, a visit was paid by the Laird and Lady of a small island south of Those, said he, are the walls of a place of refuge, built in the time of the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land, It is generally supposed, that life is longer in places where there are In the Islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different in as little danger from the powerful as in other places. English, and had never seen any other places than the Islands of Sky, thoughts that naturally rise in places where the great and the powerful 24218 26142 b. Condensation of Fibrous Peat--Weber''s Method; Hot-drying 135 In 1858 I took a weighed quantity of air-dry peat from the New Haven the soluble organic matters of the soil and of peat, especially the Peat and swamp-muck, when properly prepared, furnish carbonic acid in matters, while peat contains usually 5 to 10 _per cent._, and often effect of several air-dry peats--the heating power of an equal bulk of The quantity of water retained by air-dried peat appears to be the same of the peat for use as fuel, the canals that carry off the water from or even needful to drain and air-dry the peat, preliminary to working. 50 _per cent._ of water, and the best hot-made machine peat contains 15 Good air-dry peat, containing 20 to 30 _per cent._ of water, in some The exclusive use of air-dry peat as fuel in the 5429 [Johnson published his annotated edition of Shakespeare''s Plays in life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught Shakespeare''s plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. A play read, affects the mind like a play acted. that a play, written with nice observation of critical rules, is of a play, are to copy nature and instruct life. The English nation, in the time of Shakespeare, was yet struggling who united elegance with learning, read, with great diligence, have been performed in states of life, that appear very little Shakespeare, whether life or nature It does not appear, that Shakespeare thought his works worthy of times, they were printed during Shakespeare''s life, with his name, Before Dr. Warburton''s edition, "Critical Observations on Shakespeare" None of Shakespeare''s plays are more read than the first and second 5430 of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated As language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary we have few Latin words, among the terms of domestick use, which upon greater things, have thought little on sounds and derivations; observe whether the Latin word be pure or barbarous, or the French But to COLLECT the WORDS of our language was a task of my predecessors, by inserting great numbers of compounded words, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily considered words beyond their popular use, be thought only the jargon The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their each word, and ranged according to the time of their authours. mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to 577 7780 question is the 1773 Johnson-Steevens edition of Shakespeare''s plays. II.iii.60 (246,2) [mock-water] The host means, I believe, to reflect place it seems to mean what is in our time expressed by _to come down_, I am not convinced that a line is lost, as Mr. Theobald conjectures, nor that the change of _but_ to _put_, which Dr. Warburton has admitted after some other editor, will amend the fault. III.i.121 (71,8) [delighted spirit] This reading may perhaps stand, reads, _the_ odd _fantastical duke_, but _old_ is a common word of quarrelsome fellow, for in this sense Shakespeare uses the word III.i.107 (275,9) [Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand] This the author means that the _virtue,_ in which word _goodness_ I.iii.180 (130,1) [I like not fair terms] Kind words, good language. III.v.70 (182,5) [how his words are suited!] I believe the meaning IV.iii.59 (318,4) [youth and kind] _Kind_ is the old word for _nature_. 9823 Lives of the English Poets; a work that gave to the British nation a new Among the English poets, Cowley, Milton, and Pope, might be said "to this was a time of such general hope, that great numbers were inevitably the line that admits them, were, in the time of Cowley, little censured At what particular times of his life the parts of his work were written, He was, for some time, according to the author of his life, clerk to Mr. Jefferys, of Earl''s Croomb, in Worcestershire, an eminent justice of said to have written or begun his poem at this time; and it is likely His great work is his Essay on Translated Verse; of which Dryden writes The same year he praised the new king in a second poem on his for a long time been acted only once a year, on the night when king His acquaintance with the great writers of his time appears to have been