antogonists

Updated: April 30, 2025

Now if, in the moment of triumph, some voice in the innumerable crowd had cried out, 'How long shall this great Christian breakwater, against which are shattered into surge and foam all the mountainous billows of idolators and misbelievers, stand up on behalf of infant Christendom? and if from the clouds some trumpet of prophecy had replied, 'Even yet for eight hundred years! could any man have persuaded himself that such a fortress against such antogonists such a monument against a millennium of fury was to be classed amongst the weak things of this earth?

Thomas De Quincey - Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1