Distant Reader - subject-heaven-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 14 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 370,550 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 26,467 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, shall, will, may, world, us, heaven, love, things, one, man, life, men, great, good, now, must, lord, christ, yet, see, make, soul, many, come, first, glory, much, therefore, without, say, time, self, made, state, like, another, holy, every, know, spirit, thing, light, bee, grace, let, present, never, heart, might

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast wherein thou mayst taste and see those things which God hath prepared for them that love him / By R. Sibs ..., A future world in which mankind shall survive their mortal durations, demonstrated by rational evidence from natural and moral arguments against the atheists pretentions by William Smyth., and Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations upon Colos. 1. 12. discovering the nature and necessity of habitual and actual meetness for heaven here, in all that hope for heaven hereafter. Designed for a funeral legacy. By O.H. an unworthy minister of the Gospel of Christ..

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

another world, let us, future world, future state, jesus christ, love god, holy ghost, every one, early english, english books, god will, almighty god, books online, almightie god, nothing else, will seek, will make, shall never, shall bee, page images, creation partnership, god almighty, text creation, shall see, lord jesus, good men, may know, make us, eare heard, must needs, heavenly things, will never, one another, great things, holy spirit, eternal life, gods children, man may, wee may, rational faculties, early works, tcp schema, image sets, whole world, one thing, god shall, characters represented, represented either, strait gate, wicked men

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The everlasting joys of heaven: or, The blessed life of a Christian, in grace here; and in glory here-after. Set forth for the comfort and encouragement of all those that desire to fear the Lord; / by John Hart, a servant of Jesus Christ. Recommended to the reader, by Obadiah Sedgewick, and Iohn Downam, ministers of the Gospel. Hell''s everlasting flames avoided, and heaven''s eternal felicities injoyed containing the penitent sinner''s sad lamentation for the deplorableness of his impious life ... : also holy preparations to a worthy receiving of the Lord''s Supper ... / by John Hayward, D.D., and A serious and pathetical description of heaven and hell according to the pencil of the Holy Ghost, and the best expositors: sufficient (with the blessing of God) to make the worst of men hate sin, and love holiness. Being five chapters taken out of a book entituled, The whole duty of a Christian: composed by R. Younge, late of Roxwell in Essex, florilegus..

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, lord, tcp, christ, world, spirit, life, earth, thy, saints, heaven, thou, soul, love, glory, cor, christian, thing, state, nature, man, kingdom, hell, father, church, body, angels, wall, vnto, vertuous, vertue, thee, soule, shall, self, section, second, saviour, rom, reu, religion, reason, rational, psal, prayer, mind, men, matt, mat, mankind

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 Concerning the upright and good conversation of the saints in Christ and in Heaven 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?":

things, man, men, life, world, love, time, self, soul, thing, glory, nothing, heart, way, death, hath, day, light, mind, end, reason, grace, state, part, place, nature, body, thy, saints, faith, sin, t, others, word, work, pleasure, text, hee, knowledge, thee, manner, power, truth, joy, doth, none, hand, happiness, fire, people

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, see, make, come, being, say, made, been, know, let, love, did, ''s, take, think, give, said, am, enter, live, set, done, bee, given, go, hath, put, according, find, having, consider, blessed, found, look, stand, enjoy, meet, prepared, makes, saved, heard, believe, bring

Proper Nouns

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

god, heaven, thou, christ, lord, world, 〉, ◊, 〈, hath, wee, spirit, gods, man, life, holy, father, earth, hell, c., tcp, future, hast, state, ●, thee, soul, angels, christian, yea, divine, love, cor, mankind, kingdom, church, glory, bee, jesus, doe, faith, men, soule, justice, almighty, nature, hee, happiness, grace, saviour

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, his, i, they, their, he, our, them, we, my, you, him, us, thy, me, your, thee, its, himself, themselves, her, she, one, mine, ours, theirs, ye, ''s, yours, ay, l, heau''ns, y, whereof, vvhat, vp, vitam, unconcern''d, tho''they, thinketh, s, ourselves, ose, op''t, hee, heau''n, enthroniz''d, em, elias, c5r

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, great, other, good, own, many, more, same, present, true, glorious, first, little, much, natural, full, whole, holy, able, happy, sweet, most, best, last, better, greater, heavenly, vertuous, few, eternal, sufficient, new, high, common, least, excellent, future, everlasting, perfect, poor, wise, pure, very, short, right, wicked, several, necessary, strong, divine

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

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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