Some means, somehow, must be raised.

I have been compelled to stop my machine just at the moment of completion.

I cannot move a step without running in debt, and that I cannot do.
"As to the company that was thought of to carry the Telegraph into operation here, it is another of those _ignes fatui_ that have just led me on to waste a little more time, money, and patience, and then vanished.

The gentleman who proposed the matter was, doubtless, friendly disposed, but he lacks judgment and perseverance in a matter of this sort.
"If Congress would but pass the bill of $30,000 before them, there would be no difficulty.

There is no difficulty in the scientific or mechanical part of the matter; that is a problem solved.