They belong to a class of which there are only a few specimens in the world, and I have sometimes thought they might vie with those famous doors at Florence, which Michel Angelo hailed as worthy to be the gates of Paradise.
Sumner compares the bronze doors by Rogers to the famous doors of Florence, suggesting their high artistic quality.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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