Socially engaged traveller

I am a passenger in a ship; I am a traveller by land; I am a sojourner in a foreign country; and I am a resident at home. I continue long enough in any place to partake of the qualities of a citizen; and I am so far interested in public affairs, as to feel concern in the success of an embassy, or the prosperity of a nation. I share in the passions of a politician, and the eagerness of a merchant; I am animated by the prospects of a harvest, and depressed by the gloom of a national calamity. I feel like a freeman in bondage, and like a slave among my fellow captives; I partake of the miseries of imprisonment, and the happiness of release. Thus, I am linked in interest with so many degrees of condition, that