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Wortley opened it, read it, and would not return it. 'No, James, he said, 'you shall be a great man. This letter must appear in the Spectator. And so it did. No. 72. Wednesday, May 23, 1711. Addison. ... Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos Stat fortuna Domus, et avi numerantur avorum. Virg.
"At genus immortale manet, multosque per annos Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum;" we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master. This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.
It became a matter of doubt whether the heir per capita or the heir per stirpes was to succeed; but whether the heir per capita gave way when the heirdom per stirpes took place, or the Catholic heir when the Protestant was preferred, the inheritable principle survived with a sort of immortality through all transmigrations, Multosque per annos Stat fortuna domûs, et avi numerantur avorum.
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