| sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) - 1796 - 540 pages
...man is affe&ed by them. R 3 Peace Peace of mind, which is as eflential to contentment and happinefs as it is to virtue, depends much upon order and regularity in the common affairs of life; and in no cafe are order and method more neceflary to happinefs, (and confequently to virtue,) than in that,... | |
| Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1875 - 896 pages
...between soldiers who live in messes, and are regularly fed, and others who are not, is not confined merely to their external appearance : the influence...likewise much upon economy, or the means used for preventing pecuniary embarrassments; and the saving to soldiers in providing food, which arise from... | |
| 1898 - 932 pages
...the production of a very modern civilization, but in •Count Rumford's century-old report we read: "Peace of mind, which is as essential to contentment...health is connected with the satisfying of hunger. "All those who have been conversant in military affairs must have had frequent opportunities of observing... | |
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