"Botany bay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... built by the convicts, and the massive stone staircase suggested to our minds the horrors of convict settlement. I have always resented the injury done to this new country by the foundation of penal settlements, through which Botany Bay lost its natural connotation as a habitat for wonderful flora, and became known only as a place where convicts were sent for three-quarters of a century. Barrington's couplet, written as a prologue ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence
... search of new discoveries; "and if," said they, "your story is true, a new passage is really discovered, and we shall not return disappointed." We were now exactly in Captain Cook's first track, and arrived the next morning in Botany Bay. This place I would by no means recommend to the English government as a receptacle for felons, or place of punishment; it should rather be the reward of merit, nature having most bountifully bestowed her best ...
— The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen • Rudolph Erich Raspe
... the plans which Marsden entertained for the welfare of the many races in which he was interested, that the grandiloquent words of his biographer seem not too strong: "As the obscure chaplain from Botany Bay paced the Strand, from the Colonial Office at Whitehall to the chambers in the city where a few pious men were laying plans for Christian missions in the southern hemisphere, he was in fact charged with projects upon which not only the civilisation, but the eternal ...
— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas
... I did," continued Vince. "I expected to put my foot in a great crack every minute, and fall right through to Botany Bay." ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... with lace caps and gowns they look so like asses, Viva la Compagnie!" They'd rather have punch than the springs of Parnassus, Viva la Compagnie! What a nose the old gentleman has, by the way, Viva la Compagnie! Since he smelt out the Devil from Botany Bay,[1] Viva la Compagnie! ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
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