Children and grandchildren observe in order to admire, and they admire in order to learn and develop what heredity has stored within them.
Kinder und Enkel schauen an, um zu bewundern, und sie bewundern, um zu lernen und auszubilden, was erblicherweise in ihnen vorgebildet liegt.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, chapter 2 (tr. James E. Woods):