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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 12 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 83715 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 71 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Mr. 11 London 10 England 7 John 6 history 6 Lord 5 man 5 Sir 5 New 5 Mrs. 5 Carlyle 5 Boston 4 year 4 english 4 York 4 Paris 4 God 4 French 4 English 4 Dr. 3 great 3 good 3 german 3 american 3 St. 3 Sartor 3 Rome 3 Revolution 3 Oxford 3 Irving 3 Government 3 Froude 3 Europe 3 Emerson 3 Edinburgh 3 Cromwell 3 Church 2 time 2 life 2 letter 2 friend 2 footnote 2 William 2 Wife 2 Washington 2 Street 2 Sterling 2 State 2 Review 2 Reminiscences Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2949 man 1995 year 1934 time 1468 day 1445 life 1131 book 1118 letter 1084 friend 915 work 913 nothing 876 mind 865 history 862 world 846 thing 808 one 780 way 675 people 638 house 613 education 610 place 608 part 607 hand 600 word 559 power 541 country 539 fact 537 volume 537 father 525 society 494 name 488 month 481 subject 474 side 458 thought 454 matter 450 age 447 nature 445 character 433 eye 429 interest 428 sense 421 century 419 heart 417 force 414 boy 413 person 406 law 404 end 401 week 401 course Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6480 _ 1997 Carlyle 1209 Froude 1195 Mr. 874 Adams 812 England 799 London 723 Lord 649 Emerson 563 Macaulay 478 New 453 Prescott 403 John 392 Gibbon 357 House 355 Sir 351 Mrs. 350 Henry 337 Boston 326 English 306 America 305 God 298 Church 280 American 256 Europe 247 Dr. 241 French 241 Chelsea 230 Charles 229 Washington 228 Concord 225 T. 224 Russell 223 M. 220 Paris 219 York 218 St. 215 Oxford 214 President 212 Government 209 de 199 Review 198 Edinburgh 187 Minister 183 Street 182 Rome 181 Book 181 April 180 Ireland 177 State Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 13127 he 12231 i 9588 it 3815 you 3717 him 3157 me 2946 they 2175 we 1905 them 1381 himself 1052 she 799 us 494 her 484 one 441 myself 436 itself 317 themselves 152 yours 92 herself 88 yourself 55 ourselves 53 mine 35 thee 33 his 24 ours 19 theirs 8 hers 8 hay 5 thyself 2 oneself 1 ye 1 wine,"--you 1 webster.--alcott.--thoreau 1 us''it 1 trodden 1 tremendous:-- 1 thy 1 that.--you 1 oration.--sterling.--dwight 1 je 1 it:--for 1 it:-- 1 isabella"--prescott 1 important:-- 1 hope.--write 1 her;--brilliant 1 her.--what 1 heartily;--which 1 ce 1 bacon.--carlyle Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 36458 be 15241 have 3516 do 2230 say 2161 make 1857 know 1802 see 1700 write 1530 come 1526 go 1414 take 1364 think 1329 find 1319 give 1110 seem 1004 read 821 get 816 feel 767 tell 738 leave 695 call 663 become 656 send 615 hear 576 look 562 begin 550 pass 542 speak 539 live 514 bring 492 show 458 believe 441 stand 432 learn 409 ask 405 set 404 follow 401 receive 397 hold 382 let 379 keep 378 appear 371 remain 362 lead 361 mean 349 put 348 meet 346 bear 330 lie 328 turn Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7392 not 2726 more 2377 so 1792 good 1724 only 1712 great 1701 very 1696 well 1594 most 1588 never 1514 much 1466 own 1455 as 1448 even 1391 other 1332 first 1283 now 1231 little 1148 old 1114 ever 1069 long 1035 last 995 up 967 then 950 such 924 still 907 here 899 too 888 many 865 out 834 new 809 always 763 same 741 far 673 few 663 yet 659 young 649 again 629 there 614 perhaps 612 less 578 almost 576 rather 543 once 513 all 512 also 506 enough 492 whole 478 least 475 however Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 563 good 419 least 292 most 152 great 114 high 93 bad 56 early 49 small 46 fine 35 near 32 strong 32 Most 31 noble 31 eld 30 slight 27 old 23 deep 21 low 20 large 18 true 17 wise 16 young 16 late 16 dear 15 happy 13 long 12 strange 12 friendly 12 close 11 warm 10 simple 10 proud 10 manif 10 full 9 rare 9 keen 9 easy 8 short 8 lively 8 fit 7 sure 7 sad 7 rich 7 poor 7 pleasant 7 lofty 7 common 7 clear 7 bright 6 wide Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1302 most 70 well 59 least 4 goethe 3 worst 2 hard 2 easiest 1 ¦ 1 youngest 1 soon 1 somewhither 1 sojourner 1 poorest 1 lightest 1 highest 1 heaviest 1 gracefulest 1 furthest 1 finest 1 duke"--the Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofjaredspa00mayeiala Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 froude did not 13 _ is _ 12 froude was not 9 adams was not 8 carlyle did not 8 one does not 7 carlyle was not 7 time went on 6 _ see _ 6 adams had nothing 6 nothing was easier 6 one was more 5 _ have _ 5 _ is not 5 adams did not 5 froude had not 5 man had ever 5 mind was not 5 nothing is more 4 _ does not 4 adams was glad 4 book is not 4 england is not 4 nothing is easier 4 one knows not 4 time had not 3 _ are _ 3 _ do not 3 _ has _ 3 _ have not 3 _ read _ 3 _ speaking _ 3 adams had never 3 adams knew nothing 3 day was fine 3 life is so 3 life was still 3 man had not 3 man is not 3 mind was naturally 3 nothing came amiss 3 nothing was more 3 one did not 3 one has so 3 one knew enough 3 one knew so 3 thing is certain 3 work is not 3 years went on 2 _ am _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 adams had no reason 2 froude had no faith 2 history had no need 2 thing is no perhaps 2 time had not yet 1 _ are not equal 1 _ do not _ 1 _ has no superior 1 _ have not even 1 _ have not yet 1 _ is not anarchy 1 _ is not worth 1 _ is not yet 1 adams did not then 1 adams felt no moral 1 adams felt no prejudice 1 adams felt no responsibility 1 adams had no choice 1 adams had no friend 1 adams had no mind 1 adams had no more 1 adams had no occasion 1 adams had no opinion 1 adams had no right 1 adams knew no better 1 adams knew no more 1 adams knew no one 1 adams knew no other 1 adams knew no spot 1 adams made no acquaintance 1 adams made no effort 1 adams saw no office 1 adams saw no reason 1 adams saw no road 1 adams saw no use 1 adams was no fancy 1 adams was not alone 1 adams was not worth 1 adams were no longer 1 book is not devoid 1 book is not quite 1 book makes no noise 1 book makes no pretence 1 book was not clear 1 carlyle did not much 1 carlyle had no final 1 carlyle had no inconsiderable 1 carlyle had no intention 1 carlyle had no more 1 carlyle had no resource A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 2044 author = Adams, Henry title = The Education of Henry Adams date = keywords = Adams; Boston; Charles; Church; College; England; Europe; Gladstone; Government; Grant; Harvard; Hay; Henry; House; John; King; London; Lord; Milnes; Minister; Mr.; New; Palmerston; Paris; President; Quincy; Russell; Secretary; Senate; Senator; Seward; Sir; St.; State; Street; Sumner; Washington; York; american; english; german summary = Henry Adams never knew a boy of his generation to like Seward representing the Administration in the Senate took the lead; Mr. Adams took the lead in the House; and as far as a private secretary as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new thousand young men like Henry Adams into the surf of a wild ocean, all sympathies, including Americans like young Adams whose standards were Never, in any man who wielded such power, did Adams meet anything like Young Adams thought Earl Russell a statesman of the old school, diplomatic education, and began for him the social life of a young man make up its mind what to do for them--time which Adams, at thirty years Adams did not feel Grant as a hostile force; like Badeau he saw new President of Harvard College wanted his help; but Adams knew id = 13583 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I date = keywords = America; April; Book; Boston; Brown; Carlyle; Concord; Emerson; England; English; Fraser; French; God; Goethe; Heaven; John; July; London; Martineau; Miscellanies; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Revolution; Sartor; Sterling; Wife; York; dear; friend; good; letter; man summary = Must lecture in America or write a book.--Wordsworth.--Sterling. one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom Thanks, my kind friend, for the news you again send me. wishes to that new fair Friend of ours, whom one day we shall good wishes, a copy of his little work, lately published, on our I write the day after your letter comes, I ought to say, however, that about New-year''s-day I will send about New-Year''s-Day, the preceding letter. Almost a month ago there went a copy of a Book called _French a good book, I know,) I shall sustain with great glee the new hope, got the letter sent nearly a month ago, giving account of letters: and you are a good and generous man to write so many. Dear Friend,--Some four days ago I wrote you a long Letter, letter you had said too much good of my poor little arid book,-- id = 13660 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. date = keywords = America; April; August; Book; Boston; Carlyle; Chapman; Chelsea; Clark; Concord; Cromwell; Dear; Dial; Emerson; England; English; Fuller; January; July; June; London; March; Margaret; Miss; Mr.; New; R.W.; September; Sterling; Wife; York; friend; good; letter summary = likeness.--Fifty years old.--Rides.--Emerson''s voice wholly delay.--Writing new book.--Delight in proposed bequest.--Advice have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that preceding letter:--"How many things this book of Carlyle gives us Dear Emerson, Some ten days ago came your Letter with a new Draft Dear Emerson,--There had been a long time without direct news world.--By the way, if that good Clark _like_ his business, let Dear Emerson,--Your two Letters* have both come to hand, the last little Boston Newspaper you send!* A small hatchet-faced, grayeyed, good-humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Dear Emerson,--We received your Letter* duly, some time ago, with Dear Emerson,--Your Letter came ten days ago; very kind, and at last returned all with this word, "If you write to Mr. Carlyle, you may say to him, that I _have_ read these books, Dear Emerson,--Three days ago I at last received your Letter; id = 6031 author = Gibbon, Edward title = Memoirs of My Life and Writings date = keywords = College; Dr.; England; Essay; Europe; France; Gibbon; Greek; Latin; Lausanne; London; Lord; Mr.; Oxford; Paris; Putney; Rome; Sir; William; english; french; history; life; year summary = friends, they will be secreted from the public eye till the author who, at an advanced age, about the year 1761, died in her house. civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family Putney, I was delivered at the age of seven into the hands of Mr. John Kirkby, who exercised about eighteen months the office of my success his own mind, the natural world, the abstract sciences, and the best books in the English language; and if her reason was universities; and in the twenty-second year of his age, young Bayle almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to publication of my History fifteen years afterwards revived the and twenty years of age, who had read with taste, who thinks with been content with the more natural character of an English author. they return to England till some time after my father''s death. id = 45165 author = Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title = Peter Parley''s Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") date = keywords = Boston; Brainard; CHAPTER; Connecticut; Deacon; Dr.; England; Europe; Hartford; John; London; Louis; Mr.; Mrs.; Napoleon; New; Olmstead; Paris; Parley; Peter; Ridgefield; Scott; Smith; St.; West; York; american; day; good; great; man; time; year summary = New England, the meeting-house was the great geographical monument, to the meeting-house; for the tavern of those days was generally to school, but by the time I was ten years old I had learned to of New England country life and society at the time I speak of. occasionally worked in the field, in these hearty old federal times. This, let me observe, in those good old times, was a bird those days, during the severe season, was fully one man''s work. family, and was gathered to his fathers at a good old age, leaving After a time he came back, but said not a word. a long time the heart of the man was hard, and his ear deaf to her at the same time, days, months, nay years, have I struggled with the Peter Parley--a kind-hearted old man, who had seen much of the world, id = 32626 author = Macpherson, Hector title = Thomas Carlyle date = keywords = Carlyle; Craigenputtock; Cromwell; Edinburgh; French; Froude; God; Irving; Jeffrey; John; Life; London; Mrs; Professor; Reminiscences; Revolution; Sartor; german; man; nature summary = been given in the book to the Scottish side of Carlyle''s life, the fact Professor Masson''s charming little book, "Carlyle Personally, and in his facts about Carlyle''s university life, sums up in these words: ''Without years, this is what Carlyle says of that anxious time: ''Well do I The Carlyles in course of time visited the Jeffreys at Craigcrook, the The last time Carlyle saw his father was a few days before leaving for In the eyes of thinkers like Carlyle, the great mechanical view of Nature and Man. Just as distasteful to Carlyle, and its material, activity.'' With Carlyle the secrets of Nature and Life contact with a writer like Carlyle, who not only gave to the mind great time, Carlyle said: ''I had never seen till now how beautiful, and what Carlyle intended, some time or other, writing a ''Life of Sterling,'' but Like the prophets of old, Carlyle id = 32089 author = Mayer, Brantz title = Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D. date = keywords = American; Baltimore; Mr.; Sparks; Washington; history; year summary = self-made man I do not mean to class Mr. Sparks with that large and clerical duty in Baltimore, he did a great deal of work in editing the In after years, when Mr. Sparks required a Life of Jonathan Edwards for his American Biography, was a great honor, won in ten years, by the Harvard student of 1811; Meanwhile, his attention to the great work--the Life and Writings of his other great national book, the Life and Works of Franklin, in ten letters from eminent men to General Washington from the time of his and, even in the last year of his life, he exclaimed, at times, "_I Although the life of Mr. Sparks as an author may be said to have success, at the time when Mr. Sparks gave himself to his large and of History: "Not that Mr. Sparks," said he, "limited himself to the id = 18851 author = Morison, James Cotter title = Gibbon date = keywords = Belisarius; CHAPTER; Church; Constantine; Constantinople; England; France; French; Gibbon; Italy; Lausanne; London; Lord; Madame; Memoirs; Mr.; Necker; Oxford; Paris; Rome; Sheffield; footnote; great; roman; time; work; year summary = GIBBON''S EARLY LIFE UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING OXFORD. GIBBON''S EARLY LIFE UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING OXFORD. The saving of his life during these dangerous years Gibbon occupied by his great work had been already gone over by Gibbon before approached his sixteenth year, a great change took place in his lower condition as places of education than at the time when Gibbon The lucid order and admirable literary form of Gibbon''s great work are this juvenile work of Gibbon has little merit. the old days when Gibbon was a boarder in Pavillard''s house, and the Up to the year 1750 no great historical work had appeared Gibbon as a whole, as the encyclopædic history of 1300 years, as the Lausanne, Gibbon had four years of unbroken calm and steady work, of These closing years of Gibbon''s life were not happy, through no fault id = 9784 author = Nichol, John title = Thomas Carlyle date = keywords = Burns; Byron; Carlyle; Cromwell; Dr.; Edinburgh; Emerson; England; French; Friedrich; Froude; God; Goethe; Irving; James; John; London; Lord; Mill; Mr.; Mrs.; Reminiscences; Revolution; Sartor; Scotch; Sir; St.; Thomas; Welsh; english; footnote; german; great; history; life; like; man; write summary = The following record of the leading events of Carlyle''s life and attempt appeared shortly after Carlyle''s death, more especially that of the _St. James''s Gazette_, giving the most philosophical brief summary of his CHAPTER VIII CARLYLE AS MAN OF LETTERS, CRITIC, AND HISTORIAN So much, and more, is to be said for Carlyle''s insistence that great men Carlyle proposed to begin married life in his mother-in-law''s vacant The remaining incidents of Carlyle''s Edinburgh life are few: a visit from Carlyle''s political works, _Past and Present_ and the _Latter-Day About this time Carlyle writes, "My friends think I have found the art of There is little in Carlyle''s life at any time that can be called completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the CARLYLE AS MAN OF LETTERS, CRITIC, AND HISTORIAN Carlyle''s view that we should find a way to public life for id = 14992 author = Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) title = The Life of Froude date = keywords = Bishop; Cape; Carlyle; Carnarvon; Catholic; Church; Elizabeth; England; English; Freeman; Froude; Gladstone; God; Government; Henry; Ireland; London; Lord; Mary; Mr.; Mrs.; Newman; Oxford; Parliament; Protestant; Reformation; Review; Rome; Sir; South; State; VIII; history; irish summary = future Lord Chief Justice of England, was Froude''s first experiment 1859, left Froude the most famous of living English historians, and After her death Froude took for the first time a London house, and Froude knew the subject as Carlyle did not pretend to know it, and Froude''s History, the great work of his life, was completed in 1870. pronounced Froude''s "great book," as he called it, to be "a work of materials Froude wrote a History which any educated person can read At that time Froude was engaged, to Carlyle''s volume of the Life, Froude made up his mind to keep back Mrs. Carlyle''s letters, with her husband''s sketch of her, to suppress the On this occasion Mrs. Carlyle said that Froude had Mary Carlyle at once wrote to The Times, and accused Froude of can read Froude''s account of Carlyle''s early life without feeling History to Froude, like the world id = 39084 author = Peck, Harry Thurston title = William Hickling Prescott date = keywords = Boston; Conquest; Cortés; Dr.; England; English; Ferdinand; Irving; Isabella; John; London; Mexico; Mr.; New; Peru; Philip; Prescott; Spaniards; Ticknor; William; american; history; spanish summary = the early years of New England''s literary history, the parallel becomes examination at Harvard was at the time when Prescott came up as a A letter written by Prescott on August 23d, the day after he had passed not visit the theatre or meet the many interesting persons to whom Mr. John Quincy Adams, then American Minister to England, offered to present years, Prescott never acquired a faultless Spanish diction; but he wrote Years afterward, Prescott, in writing to a friend who had suffered a How thoroughly Prescott prepared himself for the writing of his book To the English criticisms Prescott naturally looked forward subject, it may be said that for all purposes of literary work Prescott years immediately following its publication, Prescott''s great work was This book appeared in the year of Prescott''s death, and he himself made Mr. Prescott''s collection of works relating to Mexican history, for young man, knew Prescott well, and to whom the reading of this book id = 2647 author = Trevelyan, George Otto title = Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 date = keywords = Althorp; Bill; Calcutta; Cambridge; Charles; Code; Commons; Company; Duke; Edinburgh; England; Government; Greek; Grey; Hannah; Holland; House; India; James; John; Johnson; King; Lady; London; Lord; Macaulay; Margaret; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Napier; Parliament; Review; Rogers; Sir; Street; Sunday; Tom; Wilberforce; english; history; man summary = WHEN publishing the Second Edition of Lord MACAULAY''S Life and Letters, spared no pains to inform me with regard to Lord MACAULAY''S work at eldest son--Lord Macaulay''s early years--His childish But, besides being a man of letters, Lord Macaulay was a statesman, a Lord Macaulay, it is impossible to suppress a wish that the great talker however, took a more unselfish view of the situation, and advocated Mr. Macaulay''s cause with firmness and good feeling. think,--at dinner at the house of his old friend, Sir John Macleod. Here I end my letter; a great deal too long already for so busy a man to I dined, and after dinner, like a good young man, I sate and read Bishop "Lord Macaulay''s great work was far too daring and original to be Within half a year after the time when you read this we shall be making