Distant Reader - subject-conscience-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 2021-05-24 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 36 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,533,086 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 70,363 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 93. 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, conscience, will, man, must, yet, good, law, us, christ, men, therefore, one, things, sin, shall, first, though, much, thing, make, great, doe, many, made, now, gods, reason, also, without, power, church, nature, time, every, lord, self, onely, say, way, non, life, day, know, whether, done, well, case, grace

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 ..., Medulla theologiæ, or, The marrow of divinity contained in sundry questions and cases of conscience, both speculative and practical : the greatest part of them collected out of the works of our most judicious, experienced and orthodox English divines, the rest are supplied by the authour / by Sa. Clarke ..., and The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow..

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

roman non, good conscience, holy ghost, man may, every man, jesus christ, every thing, god will, let us, must needs, every one, may see, take heed, will make, humane laws, early english, english books, new testament, one another, many things, make use, civil power, two things, vnto god, conscience will, conscience may, first day, books online, supreme power, gods word, wounded conscience, will never, one thing, nothing else, make us, gods law, true god, god doth, gods children, seventh day, men may, lords day, vnto vs, every day, may know, one day, towards god, may make, will give, good man

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The heavenly guide to true peace of conscience Wherein is observed in a most plaine and comfortable manner, 1. What conscience is. 2. What a miserable thing an evill conscience is. 3. What an happinesse a good conscience is. 4. How the estate of conscience is truly discerned. 5. The meanes to procure a good conscience. By H.V.V.I. Conscience the best friend upon earth: or, The happy effects of keeping a good conscience Very useful for this age. By Henry Stubbes, Minister of the Gospel., and Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham..

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, conscience, lord, christ, gods, church, tcp, law, spirit, scripture, man, christian, gospel, good, apostle, word, rom, paul, ghost, father, roman, psal, holy, cor, soul, grace, sinne, saviour, rule, religion, love, king, thy, testament, son, self, sauiour, saints, sacrament, non, matth, life, laws, haue, hath, faith, devil, dauid, chap, case

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 heavenly guide to true peace of conscience Wherein is observed in a most plaine and comfortable manner, 1. What conscience is. 2. What a miserable thing an evill conscience is. 3. What an happinesse a good conscience is. 4. How the estate of conscience is truly discerned. 5. The meanes to procure a good conscience. By H.V.V.I. 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, conscience, men, things, sin, law, thing, reason, p., power, time, way, day, self, life, heart, others, nature, nothing, case, world, duty, hath, part, faith, laws, words, grace, word, matter, death, peace, ▪, soul, end, selves, persons, religion, sins, answ, people, use, truth, love, person, place, children, cases, obedience, 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, do, had, make, made, being, did, say, know, done, take, said, come, hath, give, see, let, been, according, does, put, doe, think, called, bound, given, concerning, set, consider, taken, speak, makes, am, find, keep, go, use, pray, ''s, s, commanded, having, live, tell, follow

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, conscience, c., lord, church, hath, gods, law, n., thou, l., doe, r., spirit, ●, s., ye, father, paul, quest, ibid, cor, rom, christians, de, heaven, holy, yea, christian, gospel, mans, rule, est, christs, psal, grace, nature, word, jesus, command, divine, king, tim, lib, laws, david

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, their, our, them, i, him, you, us, your, my, its, me, himself, themselves, her, thy, she, thee, one, ye, ours, vp, theirs, mine, ''em, yours, vvhat, us''d, ourselves, vnto, em, itself, whereof, non, l, ay, ●, hers, thou, herself, imself, yourselves, whosoever, tollit, thēselues, ne

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, good, other, own, great, many, same, more, first, true, much, non, roman, -, little, particular, necessary, holy, whole, second, natural, greater, right, least, evil, better, new, common, present, spiritual, best, certain, lawful, most, former, very, proper, able, sufficient, full, last, wise, wicked, false, old, saith, poor, greatest, like, free

not, so, then, therefore, more, now, also, yet, as, onely, thus, first, very, well, only, up, never, much, most, that, is, even, here, out, secondly, ever, too, indeed, away, all, rather, still, there, in, sometimes, far, just, off, together, else, hence, thirdly, thereof, especially, long, often, again, no, at, otherwise

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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