text:  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 idolaters 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 antagonists--such a monument against a millennium of fury--was to be classed amongst the weak things of this earth? This oriental Rome it is true equally with Persia was liable to sudden inroads and incursions