
“2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Of Boldness
Essays (1625)
“2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Tell Hill he must come up … Strike the tent.”
Reported as his last words. There are suggestions that Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman embellished Lee's final moments; as Lee suffered a stroke on September 28, 1870. Dying two weeks later, on October 12, 1870, shortly after 9 a.m. from the effects of pneumonia. Lee's stroke had resulted in aphasia, rendering him unable to speak. When interviewed the four attending physicians and family stated "he had not spoken since 28 September..."
Misattributed
1875, as attributed in Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr. by William M. Ballie (2011)
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time!”
Activity, l. 1-6.
Ballads for the Times (1851)
Context: Open the casement, and up with the Sun!
His gallant journey is just begun;
Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,
Banner'd with glory, and burnish'd with gold,—
Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time!
As quoted in Tampa Bay Magazine (January/February 2008), p. 205