The resolutions which had been carried were for the most part merely childish.

The King was to be humbly advised to employ men of ability and integrity.

He was to be humbly advised to employ men who would stand by him against James.
The patience of the House was wearied out by long discussions ending in the pompous promulgation of truisms like these.

At last the explosion came.

One of the grumblers called the attention of the Grand Committee to the alarming fact that two Dutchmen were employed in the Ordnance department, and moved that the King should be humbly advised to dismiss them.