He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.

And herein is especially displayed the profound, the merciful, and at the same time the righteous discrimination between men, equally involved in ruin; or that decree of election and reprobation, revealed in the Word of God, which, though men of perverse, impure, and unstable minds wrest it to their own destruction, yet to holy and pious souls affords unspeakable consolation.

...with to dots over the o. that would be an ümlaut......

His basswork is both sure-fingered and mercifully sparse[…].