Thomas Jefferson actually said...

With great regret I found it was not to be accomplished.

The other parts of the work, which might all have been completed in time, were necessarily retarded by the insufficient progress of the ston...

I took every measure within my power for carrying into effect the request of the House of Representatives of the 17th of April last to cause...

Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged with that duty.