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Through him the Dane Professorship has acquired a renown placing it on the same elevation with the Vinerian Professorship at Oxford, to which we are indebted for the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone.
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Sumner compares the prestige of the Dane Professorship to that of a renowned Oxford position.
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