Among his sitters were the foremost men of his time: Emperor William I, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Hermann von Helmholtz, and William Gladstone.
"In Europe I felt as though I were despised," Freud wrote, but, in the United States, "I found myself received by the foremost men as an equal" — if not, apparently, by James.
When Sir Walter Monkton rose to move that the editor of the Daily Mail be committed to prison for contempt, he was one of the most distinguished leaders of the Bar and one of the foremost men in the country.
A prolific writer herself, Catherine corresponded regularly with the foremost men of her age, including Voltaire, Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Baron Friedrich Melchior de Grimm and others, not to speak of fellow potentates such as Frederick II, Maria Theresa, and Joseph II.
Looking back on his trip a few years later, Freud wrote that it had been encouraging: "In Europe I felt as though I were despised; but over there I found myself received by the foremost men as an equal".
3 For he was always inviting many of the foremost men to his table and he was frequently entertained at their houses.
And they disputed with each other, not as to which should be saved, but as to which of them preferably should devote himself; and they even presented their arguments before the foremost men in the camp.
For this reason Fulvia fled with her children to her husband, 2 and many of the foremost men made their way partly to him and partly to Sextus in Sicily.
Leibniz said "He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times".
