Distant Reader - subject-spirit-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 2021-05-25 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 38 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,303,342 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 60,614 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 94. 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, will, may, shall, man, one, things, lord, spirit, now, yet, christ, great, much, men, good, haue, us, life, first, therefore, many, time, also, world, holy, doth, power, come, made, make, must, see, like, vs, let, say, know, faith, true, thing, without, self, might, soul, body, day, word, well, doe

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee ... and some spirits tending ... to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world : his private conferences with Rodolphe, Emperor of Germany, Stephen, K. of Poland, and divers other princes about it ... : as also the letters of sundry great men and princes ... to the said D. Dee / out of the original copy written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in the library of Sir Tho. Cotton, Kt. Baronet ; with a preface confirming the reality (as to the point of spirits) of this relation ... by Meric Casaubon ..., The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ..., and The hundred and ten considerations of Signior Iohn Valdesso treating of those things which are most profitable, most necessary, and most perfect in our Christian profession. Written in Spanish, brought out of Italy by Vergerius, and first set forth in Italian at Basil by Cœlius Secundus Curio, anno 1550. Afterward translated into French, and printed at Lions 1563. and again at Paris 1565. And now translated out of the Italian copy into English, with notes. Whereunto is added an epistle of the authors, or a preface to his divine commentary upon the Romans..

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

holy ghost, holy spirit, let vs, iesus christ, almighty god, god will, every one, let us, spiritual things, early english, english books, jesus christ, actuall possession, vnto vs, will make, spiritually minded, gather hence, gods word, may say, books online, take heed, must needs, al things, ye may, shall see, lord jesus, bring forth, god doth, right hand, man may, ye shall, every thing, one another, haue beene, may see, many things, saint paul, whole world, lord god, holy scripture, euery one, shall come, many times, page images, will give, may well, may bee, every man, good will, wee may

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Truth lifting up its head above scandals Wherein is declared what God Christ Father Son Holy Ghost Scriptures Gospel Prayer Ordinances of God are. By Gerrard Winstanly. The burning bush not consumed wherein (either vnder all deepe sense of wrath; or hardnesse of heart, one may iudge, whether he be the childe of God, or not, &c. Chiefly receyuing satisfaction concerning the sinne against the Holy Ghost. Perused by I.D. and diuers other diuines., and The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ....

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, spirit, tcp, christ, father, soul, man, world, saints, life, thou, king, holy, ghost, thy, love, gods, earth, church, angels, thing, thee, psal, power, light, iesus, glory, faith, word, spiritual, son, scripture, prophet, prince, nature, mind, law, lady, kingdom, heart, haue, cor, christian, apostle, virgin, stone, sonne, sea, scriptures

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 Bethlehem signifying the house of bread, or, VVar whereof informs, whoso takes a small roul to taste cures forthwith distraction in the supreamest nature, with such vertue indu''d : by those tormenters firy serpents as they when stung, were heal''d a view by taken of the brazen one. 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, time, life, power, thing, world, self, day, body, nothing, way, heart, place, selfe, soul, nature, others, death, light, doth, hath, faith, part, reason, end, spirit, truth, p., flesh, thee, thy, glory, manner, words, prayer, hand, word, love, sin, name, mind, matter, art, earth, eyes, himselfe, spirits, 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, was, have, were, had, do, being, did, come, made, make, said, see, let, say, know, been, take, am, haue, set, hath, give, put, according, done, called, go, found, consider, came, understand, brought, find, pray, given, concerning, taken, having, bring, think, cast, become, stand, live, doe, saw, speak

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, thou, lord, christ, spirit, hath, ●, holy, e., k., c., gods, Δ., haue, doe, al, father, thee, ye, faith, king, yea, world, word, loue, heaven, wee, angels, life, hast, l., de, satan, jesus, est, love, lib, earth, cor, ghost, mans, owne, s., soul, man, church, paul

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, i, his, he, they, them, him, our, their, you, we, my, me, thy, your, her, us, thee, she, himself, themselves, its, one, ye, mine, vp, ours, theirs, vnto, yours, herself, itself, thou, u, hers, whereof, ''s, ●, s, myself, o, em, ourselves, f, elias, vvith, vvhat, p, non, hee

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, many, good, own, true, same, more, first, much, holy, little, whole, able, most, present, last, full, spiritual, certain, very, pure, second, least, high, proper, wicked, dead, perfect, new, best, like, greater, strong, wise, doth, better, old, free, former, third, sweet, mighty, haue, particular, right, long, saith, poor

not, so, then, now, more, therefore, also, most, up, out, very, yet, thus, as, much, here, only, well, onely, forth, first, away, even, there, again, all, down, in, never, thereof, ever, rather, together, still, too, vs, long, before, off, indeed, at, often, hence, no, far, sometimes, alone, thereby, therein, else

Next steps

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