Time, p. 74 ; X. T. Observer; Fernald, .Ifrmnirs ami Rem- inisci nces of the bar Prof. G. Bush | Boat 1860), consist- ing to a great extent of letters and contributions from friends of the d. 'ceased, viz., Rufus Choatc, W. S. Hay- don, Dr. Bellows, and others.
Bushel is used in the Auth. Yers. to express the Greek fioSiog, Latin mooUus, a Roman measure f< r dry articles, equal to one sixth of the Attic medimnus (see Smith's Diet, if Class. Antiq. s. v. Modius), and con- taining 1 gall. 7.857G pints, or nearly om /» ck English measure (Matt, v, 15 ; Mark iv, 21 ; Luke xi, 33). See Measure.
Bussey, Thomas II., a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, was born in Washington, D. C, 181 1, and pious- ly educated. In 1837 he entered tlie itinerant minis- try in tlie Baltimore Conference, in which he contin- ued until the year of his death, tilling a number of the most important circuits and stations. He died in Washington, April 19, 1856. He was a man of ear- nest and courageous nature, a zealous, faithful, and successful preacher. — Minutes of Conferences, vi, 202.
Busy-body (7rfiiui;yor, officious, 1 Tim. v, 13; "cu- rious," Acts xix, 19; irtpupya^ouai, to be over-busy, 2 Thess. iii, 11; dAAorp«7riffK07ro£, interftring in other pecple's concerns, 1 Pet. iv, 15), a person of meddlesome habits, emphatically condemned in the above texts of the N. T. as being akin to the tattler and scandal- monger.
Butler, an honorable officer in the household of Pharaoh, king of Egypt (Gen. xl, 1, 13). The original word fi'p'^'2, mashkeh', properly signifies cap-bearer, as it is elsewhere translated (1 Kin^s x, 5; 2 Chron. ix, 4). The Sept. renders it «()\<ou'o\_ooc, "chief wine-pourer," implying him who had the charge of the rest, which, as appears from ver. 2, is the true meaning. It was his duty to till and bear the cup or drinking-vessel to the king. Nehemiab was cup-bear- er (q. v.) to King Artaxcrxes | Xeh. i, 11 ; ii, 1). See Banquet.
Btitler, Alban, a Romanist writer, born in 1710, and educated at Douai, where he early attained in suc- cession to the offices of professor of philosophy and theology. Returning to England, he was appointed to a mission in Staffordshire, where he commenced Th" Lives of the Saints, which was completed during his subsequent sojourn at Paris, and there published (1715, 5 vols. Ito). In 1779 or 1780, an edition in 12 vols. 8vo, was published at Dublin: and in 1799,1800, another edition, by Charles Butler, his nephew, ap- peared at Edinburgh. An edition appeared at Derby in L843, in 12 vols. 12mo, and an American edition in 1846 (New York, 12 vols, in four, 8vo). He died May 15, 1773.
Butler, Charles, a Romanist writer, was horn in London 1756, educated at Douai, and practised law in London for many years. Besides writing and editing a number of law books, he wrote flora Biblica (2 vols. 8vo), containing an account of the literary history of the i ill and New Testament, and of the sacred books
of the Mohammedans, Hindoo-. Chinese, Parsees. etc.
It has gone through many editions. After 1806 bis pen was largely employed on Subjects regarding his own Church, which are collected in his general works. Among them arc lives of BoSSUet, of l'Ynelon, of Abbe
<lc Ranee, abbot of LaTrappe; of St. Vincent de Paul, of Erasmus, of Grotius, of Benrie Marie de Boudon, of Thomas a Kempis. of the Chancellor L'Hopital, etc.,
and of hi- own uncle, the Lev. Alban Butler, author of Lives of the Saints, a work which Mr. Butler himself continued. He was a strenuous advocate of Roman
Catholic emancipation, and much of the progress of
that measure is t" be attributed to his Historical Me- moirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics 1 1819). Hitherto lie bad abstained from controversy, but the appearance of Dr. Southey'a Booh of ///>■ church en-
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gaged him in a series of letters to that writer, and af- terward in two replies to Bishop Blomfield (q. v.) of ( Ihester and to the Rev. George Townsend, Book of the It. C. Church (Lond. 1826, 8vo); Vindication of the Book of the JR. C. Church (Lond. 1826, 8vo). His principal writings are gathered in live vols. 8vo (Lond. 1817). As he takes the Gallican stand-point throughout, his arguments for Romanism are held in no great repute among Roman theologians.
Butler, David, D.D., was born at Harwinton, Conn., in 1763 ; served as a soldier in the Revolution, ami afterward entered into business. He was bred a Congregationalist, but became an Episcopalian, and studied for the ministry under the Rev. Ashbel Bald- win. He was ordained deacon in 1792, and priest in 1793. In 1791 he became rector of St. Michael's, Litchfield, and in 1804 of St. Paul's, Troy. He con- tinued in this parish, laboring also as a missionary, and very useful in spreading the principles of his de- nomination, until 1831, when ill health compelled him to resign his charge. He died Jul}' 11, 1812. He pub- lished a Sermon before the Freemasons (1804), and sev- eral occasional discourses. His son, the Rev. C. M. Butler, D.D.,is an eminent minister and professor in the Prot. Epis. Church. — Sprague, Annals, v, 390.
Butler, Ezra, a Baptist minister, was born in Lan- caster, Mass., in Sept. 1763. In 1790 he was convert- ed and baptized, and in 1800 was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church in Waterbury, Vt., where he re- mained for over thirty years. With that of preacher Mr. Butler united various civil offices ; among them judge of the County Court in 1805, member of Congress from 1813 to 1815, governor of the state from 1820 to 1828, and presidential elector in 1836. His adminis- tration as governor was chiefly distinguished by a suc- cessful effort for the suppression of lotteries, and by some essential improvements in the system of common school education. Daring a considerable part of his life Mr. Butler was subject to much bodily infirmity, and especially for some years previous to his death, which occurred July 12, 1838. — Sprague, Annals,v'\,41\.