LOL! Love these terms that you wrote down...indeed I think I remember hearing the phrase: "shall speak in the very highest terms of your modesty, economy, and other amiable qualification" in Pride and Prejudice, where the cousin who was a man of the cloth was trying to propose to Elizabeth.

To hear such a phrase today might send a person running from who they would think is a psycho...if not, I could see a look of total bewilderment on the girl's face...