Comparisons to Adam, 1851-2

The best diplomatists of us all, they would conquer the land as easily as, — Adam lost Paradise. 
(Scenes Beyond the Western Border, April 1852; and  Scenes and Adventures in the Army)

Come, sleep! thou luxury to the happiest; thou matchless blessing to those that may not be comforted. Come deathlike; profound as Adam's first. Fated progenitor! Then from near thy soft heart, sprang its resistless enemy, evermore armed against the peace of thy unhappy sons! Nay, the very angels surrendered Heaven, and trembling, yielded to her arms.
(August 1852; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army)

A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty steed.  (Moby-Dick)

 I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise. (Moby-Dick)

"He would turn Turk before he would disown an allegiance hereditary to all gentlemen, from the hour their Grand Master, Adam, first knelt to Eve." (Pierre)

"... there came into the mind of Pierre, thoughts and fancies never imbibed within the gates of towns; but only given forth by the atmosphere of primeval forests, which, with the eternal ocean, are the only unchanged general objects remaining to this day, from those that originally met the gaze of Adam."  (Pierre)