Explanation: “Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the…………… it may be.”

Answer: This statement has been taken from the famous essay “Sir Roger at Church” by Addison. Here Addison is making fun of these people who equate intellect with money and give more importance to rich men. 

The ordinary villagers are simple and are impressed by riches. They can sider rich people to be intelligent as well as wise they give equal respect to a rich man for his wisdom as they do to that of a learned man. In fact, they respect a rich man’s judgment more than they do a barred man. It is difficult to convince them that what a learned man says is true if they are aware that a rich man does not say statements in any respect. Actually, it is an example of discord between the squire and parson. When the common people find that the rich squire and the parson quarrel, they prefer to follow the squire and lose their faith in religion.

In fact, Addison is clearly didactic here. He is very much against the squires and their parsons. And represents himself as a subtle observer.